illinois Volume 40, Number 5 September/October 2009
PR PARKS AND RECREATION The magazine of the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Illinois Park and Recreation Association
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FEATURES SPECIAL FOCUS DEPARTMENTS
17 IAPD/IPRA Soaring to New 12 Art Belongs in Parks 4 From the Editor Heights Conference 2010 by Carol Haggas and Erika Young Pre-Conference Brochure and 6 Get on Board Registration And Now, a Word About Our Sponsors 50 The 2010 Illinois Parks & Recreation Magazine Editorial 8 Eye on the Profession Calendar Art Imitates Parks (or Vise Versa)
10 Statehouse Insider The IAPD Legislative Platform Meets with Success
52 People and Places
On the Cover: Pre-Conference Brochure ‘The Potato Man’ by Niagara Falls, New York artist Susan Geissler is part of the St. Charles Park District’s “Sculpture and Registration Inside in the Park” event running through mid-October.
ILLINOIS PARKS AND RECREATION illinois FROM THE EDITOR PR PARKS AND RECREATION On the impetus for and the art of running
OFFICES IPRA Representatives LOIS NICKSON JOHN MCGOVERN This summer, Runner’s 217.523.4554 Macomb Park District Recreation Accessibility Consultants World magazine asked its LAURA BARRON, CPRP JOSEPH PETRY MIKE TOOHEY, CPRP readers and Tweet followers FAX Oakbrook Terrace Park District 217.523.4273 Champaign Park District Lisle Park District what makes them run. For a ARNIE BIONDO Carol Stream Park District D. DEWEY PIEROTTI JR. LORIKAY PADEN, CPRP long time, I didn’t have a E-MAIL Forest Preserve of DuPage County University of Illinois [email protected] good answer, which is CHERYL CRISMAN, CPRP Plainfield Park District CHRIS RILEY MIKE STERBA, CPRP strange because I only began WORLD WIDE WEB Decatur Park District Coloma Township Park District running in July 2008, so www.ILparks.org MIKE DOTY, CPRP www.ILipra.org Mt. Carroll FRANK SCARPELLI MARY JEANNE HUTCHINGSON, CPRP you’d think I’d know what Dundee Township Park District O’Fallon Parks and Recreation got me started. MAIL ELSA FISCHER, CPRP 211 East Monroe Street Northbrook Park District IAPD HEADQUARTERS CRAIG CULP, CPRP I remember that my motivation did have something to Springfield, Illinois 62701-1186 211 East Monroe Street NSSRA ALLISON SOHR with ambition. I wanted to get into some races and see Springfield, IL 62701-1186 GAIL ITO, CPRP Managing Editor Batavia Park District 217.523.4554 how I stacked up. But it also had a lot to do with getting TED FLICKINGER, Chicago State University www.ILparks.org President and Chief ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF out of the gym and into the world. There are municipal and Executive Officer, IAPD DEE KAISER park district trails aplenty. Why not be there? And so I have PARK DISTRICTS TED FLICKINGER, Ph.D., CPRP, CAE University of Illinois Editor President and Chief Executive Officer been, sometimes on my lunch breaks, but mostly in the RODD WHELPLEY, COLETTE KUBIESA DEBBIE KOPAS, CPRP pre-dawn hours, when I can get away without having to Publications Director, IAPD Chairman CINDY DEITERS Homewood-Flossmoor Park District Elmhurst Park District Marketing Director feel guilty about missing time with my family and my Graphic Design STEVE NEILL, CPRP Arlington Heights Park District workmates. GOSS GRAPHIC DESIGN GEORGE LONGMEYER BOBBIE JO HILL 217.423.4739 Chairman-elect Public Relations Director I’ve seen a lot of nature in these public spaces. If www.gossgrfx.com Schaumburg Park District RICK SCHRAM, CPRP Winnetka Park District rabbits of Sagamon County were sentient beings, I’d swear ALAN HOWARD Advertising Sales MIKE KROST Finance Director LISA SHEPPARD, CPRP they had taught one another to dart onto the path at Representative Immediate Past Chairman SHERRI KHILE Gurnee Park District intervals specifically calculated to make a runner stumble. BETH SALTZ Chillicothe Park District Arlington Publishers Representatives Executive Secretary ALLISON SOHR, CPRP I’ve run (for a second or two) beside deer and foxes, been P.O. Box 1555 DON ANDERSEN Batavia Park District Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006 Vice Chairman PETER M. MURPHY, CAE hissed at by a possum, swooped down upon by bats and, 847.509.9810 Oak Lawn Park District General Counsel once, nipped by duck (presumably because I did not have FAX: 847.509.9816 IPRA HEADQUARTERS [email protected] WALLY FRASIER SHANNON SARTAIN 1815 S. Meyers Rd., Suite 400 the requisite slice of bread to cross his causeway.) Nothing Vice Chairman Legal Secretary Oakbrook Terrrace, IL 60181 Mundelein Park and Recreation District like that ever happens on the treadmill. JOINT EDITORIAL SUE TRIPHAHN, CMP 630.376.1911 But running brings its share of disappointment, too. I COMMITTEE LINDA JOHNSON Educational Services Director www.ILipra.org was looking forward to running beneath the Perseid meteor Vice Chairman IAPD Representatives Crete Park District RODD WHELPLEY MIKE SELEP, CPRP shower on August 12, but bad quads kept me inside that Publications Director Interim CEO and th WILLIS “BILL” LOGAN Professional Services Director morning and also the morning of the 13 . So, out I went at MARY ANN CHAMBERS Treasurer ILLINOIS PARK AND 4:30 on the 14th, to try to eek a slow, careful run out of Northbook Park District Springfield Park District RECREATION ASSOCIATION BARRY FRANKS Finance Director some tender muscles. I had my eye out for the bat that ANN AUSTIN MARY ANN CHAMBERS lives in one of the trees that grows between the path and Rock Island Park and Northbrook Park District RON SALSKI, CPRP DINA KARTCH Recreation Department Chairman Education and Conference Director the golf course and I was wondering, What am I doing CAROLYN EDLEY Lake Bluff Park District WALLY FRASIER East Saint Louis Park District HEATHER WEISHAAR here? And there it was in the northern sky, one bright Mundelein Park and CARRIE HAUPERT, CPRP Communications and Projects Director streak, lasting only a second. Recreation District DAVID HANSEN Chairman-elect Itasca Park District Bloomingdale Park District It’s incredibly prideful, I know, but at that moment I felt ROBERT GELWICKS that that meteor, that stray bit of stardust existed just for Downers Grove Park District JERRI-LYNN KLEINA TRACEY M. CRAWFORD, CTRS, CPRP Alsip Park District Immediate Past Chairman me. It was, like me, struggling and definitely late for the MIKE KROST Fox Valley SRA party. But it didn’t care. It ran along its course anyway. Chillicothe Park District DIANE MAIN Westmont Park District CAROLYN NAGLE, CTRS, CPRP To that point, my experiences running out in nature Fox Valley SRA were those of a spectator, or, sometimes, an intruder on the NATHANIEL “NATE” MARTIN Rockford Park District RON OESTREICH, CPRP natural world. But my instant kinship with that falling star Bolingbrook Park District made me feel that I was not just in nature, I was of nature. I cannot draw or paint or dance, as so many people do in our parks (see page 12). That’s why, I suppose, I find Illinois Parks and Recreation and express my place in the universe by running through (ISSN 0019-2155) is published bimonthly at 211 E. Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois, by the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Illinois Park and Recreation Association. Annual subscription rates: $6 for IAPD/IPRA members; $25 for non-members; $30 foreign; $20 educational the parks. Your public agencies provide the safe places institutions. Single copies: $2 members; $5 nonmembers. Periodicals postage paid at Springfield, Illinois and additional post offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Illinois Parks & Recreation, 211 E. Monroe Street, Springfield, IL 62701-1186. Opinions expressed in where that can happen. What a wonderful thing. this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily express the official views of the IAPD/IPRA. Likewise, the publication of any advertisement is not to be construed as an endorsement of the product or services offered. Members of the IAPD and the IPRA and other interested persons are encouraged to submit articles and illustrative photos for possible publication in the magazine. Send for manuscript guidelines and deadline dates: Editor, Illinois Parks & Recreation, 211 E. Monroe Street, Springfield, IL 62701-1186, 217.523.4554, [email protected], www.ILparks.org. By submitting articles for publication, authors are assigning the copyright to the Illinois Association of — RODD WHELPLEY Park Districts. Editor Copyright© by the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Illinois Park and Recreation Association. All rights reserved. Reprints of articles in whole or in part without prior written permission are prohibited. 4 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.IPRAonline.com www.ILparks.org September/October 2009 5 GET ON BOARD
And Now, a Word
Dr. Ted Flickinger IAPD President and Chief About Our Sponsors Executive Officer
They become associate members, advertise in this magazine and in throughout Illinois. Scott used his skills as a professional engineer and the annual buyers’ guide, take booths at the Soaring to New Heights volunteered several days to come to the IAPD headquarters and make Conference, or underwrite educational seminars and holes at golf necessary updates to the building’s heating and cooling systems. Scott outings. They are the businesses that offer goods and services to the park is involved in the community in other ways as well, serving as chair of and recreation industry. So, naturally, it’s part of their marketing strategy the Northwest Suburban Chicago Sports Council, among many other to capitalize on opportunities to meet with IAPD members. But it’s a activities. He is past a chairman of the IAPD Board of Trustees. mistake to view sponsors’ presence at – and support of – association Along with nearly all the employees at W-T Engineering, Scott has g volunteered to help the park district and its friends organization by functions the way you regard the incessant commercials that interrupt your favorite TV show or ball game. staffing such special events as the Communi-Tee Golf Outing, bingo and casino nights, bowling outings and movies in the parks. The Their Sponsorship Benefits You company has also has donated in-kind engineering and land surveying Sponsor fees, associate member dues and advertising revenues collected by IAPD help pay for programs and materials that benefit you. Without the support of these businesses, this magazine might not be Many of the business possible. And the annual conference would likely be a little less owners who are our spectacular than what we’ve become accustomed to. Sponsor fees sponsors have more than provide the means for such research initiatives as the 2007 Citizen an economic interest in Perspective report that has provided hard data to support our advocacy parks and recreation: they efforts concerning the benefits of parks, recreation and conservation in have a passion for it. They Illinois. Sponsorship fees provide revenue to fund such initiative as IAPD’s PowerPlay! Grants, which benefit beyond school programs at become personally member agencies. Sponsorship income also offsets some of the costs of involved in our cause. commissioner boot camps and seminars, the legal symposium and the legislative conference, making your attendance at these educational programs more affordable for you and your agency. services in excess of $50,000 to the district for facility renovations, athletic field lighting projects and new park developments. It’s More Than Just Business One of IAPD’s associate members is the law firm of Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush, DiCianni & Krafthefer. Ancel Glink attorneys serve as We often tend to think of associations, institutions or businesses as general counsel to more than 25 park districts in Illinois. But this firm faceless entities unto themselves. But, of course, behind every legal is committed to helping more than just those park districts on its client entity are real people. Many of the business owners who are our list. Partner Robert Bush is putting the finishing touches on the sixth sponsors have more than an economic interest in parks and recreation: edition of the Illinois Park District Law Handbook, which provides they have a passion for it. They become personally involved in our cause. Illinois park district commissioners and professionals with a better At the risk of leaving some out, let me cite a few examples. understanding of the laws and practical day-to-day issues that affect At Hoffman Estates, W-T Engineering CEO Scott Triphahn has served their work. Bush, with the assistance of Ancel Glink Director of Special on the park board since 1997, and he has already served four terms as Projects Robert Porter, also edited the second edition of the IAPD president. He earned IAPD’s Rising Star recognition in 1999, and was publication Financial Procedures for Illinois Park Districts. The firm awarded the Chairman’s Citation for his exemplary leadership and puts countless volunteer hours into the production of these projects. effective action toward advancing parks, recreation and conservation
Sponsor fees, associate member dues and advertising revenues collected by IAPD help pay for programs and materials that benefit you.
6 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.IPRAonline.com However, the firm’s educational outreach efforts go well beyond the written page. Ancel Glink IAPD Calendar attorneys have made pro bono presentations at the annual IAPD legal symposium and the IAPD/IPRA annual conference for more than 15 years. Another consistent IAPD event sponsor is Team REIL, which has been one of the northern and central Illinois’ most well known dealers of recreational equipment and park furnishings for 30 years. No doubt September 11 Team REIL is a highly successful enterprise. But it’s also one with a lot of heart. In 2006, the company IAPD Awards Gala worked with actor Matthew McConaughey to build a playground in Houston, Texas for a neighborhood of 65 families who were relocated survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The company donated a playground Chevy Chase Country Club system and sent 10 volunteers to install it. Wheeling Park District In addition to such business-based philanthropy, company president John Cederlund works to ensure behaviorally, physically or developmentally challenged children have positive outdoor experiences. In 1999, he and his family founded the Light Center, a foundation that allows children to work with horses September 22 and other animals, as well as cultivate vegetables. The Light Center is located on the Cederlund’s Reil-C- IAPD Golf Tour – Event 4 Farm in Union, Illinois. The Light Center barn – built in just one day with the help of 78 volunteers – and Aldeen Golf Course the surrounding environment houses 32 animals used in the animal assisted program and a 3,500- square-foot raised garden. The children who participate in Light Center programs learn that they are Rockford Park District loving and capable people by performing real and necessary acts of nurturing, whether that be leading a horse, cleaning a stall or weeding a bed of lettuce. The program allows children to experience success October 13-16 and shows them that positive choices often yield positive results. Since its inception, more than 1,200 children have benefited from the Light Center’s programs and facilities. NRPA Congress On pages 58 and 59 you’ll see a list of IAPD associate member agencies. One is SRBL Architects. Salt Lake City, Utah SRBL principal Carol Sente has been a commissioner of the Vernon Hills Park District for nearly a decade. She is currently the district’s vice president. She served the IAPD/IPRA joint conference committee as exhibits co-chair in 2006. November 5 At the next IAPD outing or at the next joint conference, I’d encourage you to take some time to make Legal Symposium contact with the owners and representatives of the businesses that are IAPD associate members and those who advertise in our publications or sponsor our functions. Let them talk to you about their Hamburger University products and services. That’s all they ask. Oak Brook
Sponsors and Associate Members – Truly a Part of the IAPD Team As park board commissioners, you volunteer your time to your agencies because you believe in the January 28-30, 2010 goodness that parks and recreation puts into the lives of the people in your community. When you attend Soaring to New Heights IAPD events, it’s tempting to think of messages from sponsors as a waste of time, or to think of the Conference product representatives at the annual conference merely as guys looking for their next commission. While this may be true for the sponsors, advertisers and commercial members of some associations, Hilton, Chicago the parks and recreation community is blessed to be served by many business owners who – like you – understand and live the mission of parks and recreation.
www.ILparks.org September/October 2009 7 EYE ON THE PROFESSION
A CLOSER LOOK AT TRENDS AND ISSUES IN THE PARK AND RECREATION PROFESSION
Mike Selep, CPRP Art Imitates Parks (or Vise Versa) IPRA Professional Services Director and Iterim CEO
I just woke up from a recurring dream. In this dream, I’m a Parks as Art contestant on the game show Family Feud. Face to face with Perhaps the reason why I gave this answer is that it was the another contestant, my hand is poised to hit the buzzer during best possible answer. There is a constant flow and diversity of the most stressful part of the show, the dreaded faceoff. I look experiences in each and every park that makes it a living work of over to Richard Dawson (this is the older, better version of the art. It is truly the place where the community gathers in a unique Feud). way that I can only begin to describe as art. I am reminded of my Richard poses the question: “What is something that you favorite work of art (besides my kids’ artwork proudly displayed might see in a park?” on our family refrigerator) ‘Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La I’m excited about the question. Images flash through my Grande Jatte’ by George Seurat. mind: kids, teens, adults, seniors, couples and families that are I remember seeing this painting for the first time on a high swimming, skateboarding, jogging, biking and fishing; people school field trip to the Art Institute in Chicago. I was captivated, playing baseball, basketball, tennis, ultimate frisbee and soccer or walking dogs, climbing trees or families sitting down for picnic, play or concert. A million possibilities flow through my head all at once. There is a constant flow e I hit the buzzer before the other contestant. I quickly blurt out and diversity of an answer that encapsulates all of things that are rushing through experiences in each and my mind: “Art!” Richard looks at me somewhat dumbfounded. He stares up at every park that makes it the large board with three answers still to be revealed. He looks a living work of art. at me and shakes his head. He looks out to the audience. Many of them are laughing at Richard’s rather contorted facial expressions. He looks up at the board and loudly says: “Something you might see in a park. Mike says ‘art.’ Survey spending at least an hour staring at this painting. There is so says?” much going on in the picture that I became lost somewhere in it. To the dismay of Richard and everybody else in the audience, The painting features people of all ages sitting, sailing, talking, the number one answer is revealed: Art. fishing, rowing, running and playing musical instruments. There Right at about this point my alarm goes off, and I often awake is even a woman walking a monkey. to find that I’m hitting the clock as if it were the Family Feud My first thought about this painting was why is there a buzzer. woman walking a monkey? I moved beyond that after realizing This time, I wanted to go back to sleep for a few more that it was a French painting. I began to think about how much I moments to see if I could discover the number two and three identified with the painting because I truly enjoyed the park that I answers, but my wife demanded that I get out of bed and move grew up hanging out in and how special my community park was on with my day. for me. It was the ultimate destination for all of my friends. We As I was getting ready to head into the office, I asked myself would all ride our bikes to the park. Throughout my childhood, I why I responded with ‘Art.’ There were so many different choices spent countless hours on the swings and slides of the I could have made. I must have said this because I was thinking playground, playing baseball and inventing and perfecting new about the theme for this issue of Illinois Parks & Recreation, arts games, while learning lifelong lessons through the interactions in the park. with my friends.
The painting now serves as a reminder to me of just how important conservation and preservation of open space is in terms of providing opportunities for future generations.
8 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.IPRAonline.com I now spend the majority of my free time in my community parks playing with my kids, running or biking, relaxing or spending time with my family and friends at the evening concerts in the park. I often catch myself in a ‘Sunday Afternoon’ moment while watching my kids play or listening to the concert. I look across the park, observing all of the activity and wishing that I could capture it all like Seurat.
Preserving Our Artistic Vistas On a visit to the Art Institute a few years ago, I stopped in the bookstore and found a book about Seurat that contained a more recent photo of this park located in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a Paris suburb. It is now much smaller, surrounded by homes and known as Île de la Jatte. The park contains a walking path along the Seine River and a few benches. As a result of seeing this photo, I gained a new appreciation for the painting. It now serves as a reminder to me of just how important conservation and preservation of open space is in terms of providing opportunities for future generations to obtain similar experiences. I want to ensure that my children and their children have the opportunity to enjoy ‘Sunday Afternoon’ moments of their own. If my grandchildren doze off under a tree on a lazy Sunday afternoon in their community park, they might be able to find themselves in their own Family Feud dream with the same question being posed to them. If so, the top answer should already be revealed to them through their own personal experiences in their park. I just hope that they will be able to stay asleep long enough to find out the second and third answers. Survey says? The Grande Jatte as depicted by George Seurat circa 1886 (top) appears to be a greener, more vibrant space than it is today (bottom). The contrast in these images reminds me of the cultural importance of preserving our parks, which are themselves works of art, as well as the inspiration for works of art.
www.ILparks.org September/October 2009 9 STATEHOUSE INSIDER
ISSUES & INSIGHTS FROM THE LEGAL/LEGISLATIVE SCENE
The IAPD Legislative
Peter M. Murphy Platform Meets with Success IAPD General Counsel
I am pleased to report that this year’s IAPD legislative platform met and in the manner designated in the invitation for bids. During the with great success, and several of the initiatives that the governor has auction, a bidder’s price shall be disclosed to other bidders. Bidders approved will relate positively to the bottom line of every IAPD shall have the opportunity to reduce their bid prices during the member. auction. At the conclusion of the auction, the record of the bid prices received and the name of each bidder shall be open to public Agency Debt Service Extension inspection.” The reverse auction process would not apply, however, for I am most excited to share with you the news that on August 14, procurements of professional and artistic services, including, but not the governor signed House Bill 242 (now Public Act 96-501), which limited to, telecommunications services, communications services, provides that the debt service extension base must be increased by the Internet services and information services. It would also not apply for lesser of five percent or the percentage increase in the Consumer Price contracts for construction projects. Index during the 12-month calendar year preceding the levy year (instead of the percentage increase of the Consumer Price Index for the Defibrillator Regulations previous calendar year). This long sought after reform will assist your The Physical Fitness Facility Medical Emergency Preparedness Act agency in growing its debt service extension base by the Consumer was also amended this year to delete the requirement that a physical Price Index. These adjustments will begin for the 2008 change in CPI for 2009 and thereafter. This will address the problem of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Act as originally passed, which eroded local government’s Several of the ability to maintain its capital infrastructure. initiatives that the s Since 1994, inflation has reduced local government capital buying governor has power by 41 percent. approved will relate Bond Maturity positively to the In addition, on August 11, the governor took action to approve bottom line of every House Bill 4151 (now Public Act 96-321), which provides that the IAPD member. principal on bonds issued by a park district may be payable no later than 25 years (up from 20 years) from the respective date of issue.
Park Board Eligibility fitness facility have a trained automated external defibrillator (AED) In response to concerns by members, the governor signed House user present during all physical fitness activities. The law now provides Bill 2295 on August 14, creating Public Act 96-458. This law that a physical fitness facility must ensure that there is a trained provides that a person is not eligible to serve as park commissioner if automated external defibrillator (AED) user on staff “during staffed that person is in arrears in the payment of a tax or other indebtedness business hours.” due to the park district or has been convicted in any court located in the United States of any infamous crime, bribery, perjury or other felony. Changes to the Freedom of Information and Open Meetings Acts Reverse Auctions for Procurement of Services The Illinois General Assembly passed and Governor Quinn The governor also took action to sign into law House Bill 379 as approved Senate Bill 189 as Public Act 96-542. The new law Public Act 96-588. This legislation creates the Local Government amends the Open Meetings Act and the Attorney General Act by Electronic Reverse Auction Act and it amends the Illinois Procurement establishing the position of Public Access Counselor in the Office of the Code to allow for an electronic reverse auction method of awarding Attorney General. Between January 1, 2010 and July 1, 2010, every business whereby “bids shall be accepted electronically at the time public body shall designate employees, officers or members to receive training on compliance with this Act. Each public body shall submit a
Public Act 96-501 will address the problem of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Act as originally passed, which eroded local government’s ability to maintain its capital infrastructure.
10 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.IPRAonline.com Veto Powers of the Governor and the General Assembly’s Possible Responses list of designated employees, officers, or members to the Public Access Counselor. When both houses of the Illinois bill becomes law without the Before July 1, 2010, the designated General Assembly pass a bill, that bill vetoed item or with the reduced employees, officers and members must returns to the chamber of origin to for appropriations. successfully complete an electronic training enrollment, which is a process whereby all curriculum, developed and administered by the amendments that have been added to Note that the reduction veto requires the Public Access Counselor, and thereafter the original measure are incorporated into only a majority vote, not a super-majority must successfully complete an annual a single document, which is then signed vote, to be overridden. training program. by the presiding officer in each chamber. When the governor amendatorily vetoes The Act also amends the Freedom of The bill must be enrolled and transmitted a bill, the governor’s recommendations are Information Act, declaring that it is the public to the governor within 30 days of passage. contained in a veto message that is sent to policy of the State of Illinois to grant access The governor then has 60 days in the originating chamber. In response to an by all persons to public records to promote which to act on a bill. Unlike the president amendatory veto, the General Assembly the transparency and accountability of public of the United States, who can only accept may do any of the following: bodies at all levels of government. It is a or reject a piece of legislation in its · Override the governor’s fundamental obligation of government to entirety, the Illinois governor has five amendatory veto and reject the operate openly and provide public records as alternatives when considering a bill that recommended changes with a expediently and efficiently as possible in has been passed by the General Assembly. three-fifths super-majority vote of compliance with the Act. Public Act 96-542 Here is a short explanation of the both chambers. If this happens, makes changes concerning: The Act’s governor’s veto powers. the bill becomes law in the form passed by the General Assembly. procedures for responding to requests for Under the Constitution of the State of · Accept the governor’s disclosure of public records; fees; public Illinois, a governor may: recommended changes with the body freedom of information officers; denial · Sign the bill into law; appropriate number of votes, of requests; exemptions from disclosure; · Take no action, and after 60 generally a simple constitutional exempted security information; and civil days the bill becomes law majority of the membership of penalties. without the governor’s both chambers. If this happens, This act takes effect on January 1, 2010. signature; the bill becomes law in the form · Amendatorily veto the bill, recommended by the governor. Fly American Flags Made in suggesting specific changes in it · Fail to override the amendatory America to the General Assembly; veto or to accept the House Bill 1332 was signed into law on · Execute a line-item veto or recommended changes. If this August 14, as Public Act 96-513. This reduction veto on appropriations happens, the bill dies. measure creates the Official United States bills; or Flag Act, which requires each agency of the · Veto the entire bill. When the governor vetoes an entire state government and each unit of local bill, the governor will return it to the government to ensure that each United When the governor uses an General Assembly with a veto message States flag that is flown at each of its amendatory, line-item reduction or a total outlining the objections. In response, the buildings, structures or facilities is veto, the General Assembly then can General Assembly may do either of the manufactured in the United States. accept the governor’s alterations, or it can following: try to override a veto. · Override the governor’s veto by a Short Veto Session Scheduled If the governor executes a line-item or three-fifths super-majority vote of reduction veto on an appropriations bill, for October the members of both chambers. If any portion of the bill not reduced or this happens, the bill becomes Aside from a perfunctory session slated vetoed becomes law when signed by the law in the form originally sent to for October 5, the Illinois General Assembly governor. In response to such a veto, the the governor by the General is set to convene for six days to consider General Assembly may do any of the Assembly. overrides to any legislation from the spring following: · Fail to override the veto by getting session that the governor may have vetoed. · Vote to restore (override) a reduced less than a three-fifths vote in Although members of the General Assembly appropriations item by a either chamber. In this case, the may work on other legislative initiatives at constitutional majority vote of both bill dies. this time, the main purpose of the session is chambers. If this happens, the bill to dispose of the governor’s vetoes in the becomes law with the original If the governor uses any of these veto manner described on this page. amount restored. powers, the bill is returned to its house of · Vote to replace (override) a vetoed origin, which immediately must enter the Veto Session Dates line item by a three-fifths super- governor’s objections on its journal. That October 5 – Perfunctory session majority vote of the membership chamber then has 15 calendar days to October 14-16 of both chambers (36 votes in the pass an override with the proper majority October 28-30 Senate and 71 votes in the of votes and send the bill to the other House). If this happens, the bill house, which, in turn, has 15 calendar becomes law as the General days to secure the proper majority for an Assembly originally passed it. override. · Fail to override the reduction or line item veto, in which case the
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12 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.IPRAonline.com by Carol Haggas and Erika Young ‘Sculpturewalk’
belongsart in parks: You Can Do It, We Did
A teenage boy spies a towering steel obelisk from the top of his run on a skateboard ramp. A 50-something cyclist pedals beside the river’s edge past a bronzed pixie sitting atop a giant turtle. A young mother pushes her baby daughter’s stroller near the figure of a soaring hawk miraculously stopped in mid-flight. Thousands of visitors who hike, bike, stroll and skate through the St. Charles Park District’s Mt. St. Mary Park enjoy the “Sculpture in the Park” exhibit, nestled among the maples, oaks and pines of a shady arboretum and with the Fox River as its eastern border.
Site Selection Now in its fourth year, the “Sculpture in the Park” program is a model of the kind of complementary association possible between civic agencies that share the same mission. In this case, the St. Charles Park District and the Downtown St. Charles Partnership, a 501(c)3 organization, collaborate on the challenge of bringing an annually changing exhibition of sculptural art to St. Charles area residents and visitors. With some 1,400 acres of parkland within its jurisdiction, the park district’s choice of where to house such a display could have been a hard one. But as with real estate, it all boiled down to three things: location, location, location. Early on, organizers knew that the success of the sculpture park would depend on its accessibility to the community, and Mt. St. Mary Park had everything going for it. Situated on the west bank of the Fox River that flows through the heart of St. Charles, at twenty-nine acres, Mt. St. Mary Park is the largest of the park district’s facilities adjacent to the downtown area. Two major north-south state highways – Route 31 to the west and Route 25 to the east – bracket the park, providing phenomenal drive-by traffic. Existing park amenities – biking and walking trails; a skate park; tennis and basketball courts; an arboretum; playground and picnic areas – mean exposure to thousands of joggers and dog walkers, children and teenagers, young parents and senior citizens who visit the park.
www.ILparks.org September/October 2009 13 Getting a Little Expert Help from Your Friends Gathering the Pieces Deciding to do a project of this magnitude may have been one Along with the prospectus, artists are asked to submit an thing, turning the concept into reality was another. Where does one application form, a brief biography, and digital or print photographs of begin? three views of their proposed work. These materials are then submitted St. Charles has a number of nationally recognized artists as area for approval to a jury committee, who place public safety first and residents, and the park district was fortunate to have one already foremost among the criteria they consider. Pieces that have sharp edges involved with the Downtown St. Charles Partnership’s Public Art or that could be considered an endangerment to the public are not Committee. A painter and printmaker as well as a sculptor whose accepted, and the committee reserves the right to inspect all pieces award-winning work has appeared in prestigious sculpture gardens before final installation. around the country, Ray Kobald was invaluable in helping project The same attention to detail that went into the creation of the organizers get the exhibition off the ground, literally and figuratively. prospectus has been equally critical in managing the correspondence. For a spring-to-fall show that would feature anywhere from ten to Spreadsheets have been developed and are constantly updated to two dozen pieces, a potentially daunting array of nuts-and-bolts issues indicate how – and how often – an artist is contacted and by what needed to be addressed. How would the sculptures be displayed? means: mail, e-mail, phone, fax, whatever works. It is a huge Where would they be placed? What about protection from the administrative undertaking, one that has been shared by members of elements, not to mention from vandalism? And where would the park the committee and staffs of both the St. Charles Park District and district find the artists who would participate in the program? From Downtown St. Charles Partnership. Each committee member is helping design the bases that would support the sculptures to assigned an artist or two that he or she personally contacts to help comprising a database of artists who could be invited to participate in facilitate the application process, according to Klimek. the program, Kobald’s early input put the park district ahead of the “If a park district alone wanted to commit their staff to this,” normal learning curve. advises Klimek, “it would have to be a full-time position.” “I don’t know how we could have done it without him,” says Gloria Each year, the committee selects new pieces of artwork to keep the Klimek, a member of the St. Charles Park District’s Board of exhibit exciting and to expose a variety of artists’ work to park visitors. Commissioners, who served on the Public Art Committee at the time Thus, all of the hard work pays off, as this year’s exhibition includes the “Sculpture in the Park” concept was formulated. Klimek, too, was 15 works by talented artists from Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, New instrumental in bringing the concept to reality, specifically encouraging York and Colorado. the St. Charles Park Board and Director Jim Breen, who was an early “Everyone is really wonderful to work with,” adds Brown. Apart and eager supporter. from some skin-of-your-teeth arrivals on installation day and a few Having an artist and sculptor willing to consult with the committee last-minute logistical modifications, Brown and Klimek agree that each gave them the confidence they needed to go forward, according to year the exhibitions have gone off relatively flawlessly. Diana Brown, director of the St. Charles Public Library and chair of the Part of the reason for that success can be directly attributed to the Public Art Committee. “None of us had ever done this before,” says work of the park district’s parks department and construction crew, Brown. “Ray had the connections and the credibility.” who fabricate the bases and pedestals for each sculpture and handled Klimek and Breen visited area sculpture gardens, including Skokie’s Northshore Sculpture Park, the Homewood-Flossmoor Park District, St. Louis’ Laumeier Sculpture Park and numerous others. With a good idea of what an appealing public sculpture exhibition should look like, the committee was then charged with the task of actually delineating the parameters of how their program should be administered. WebXtra
Getting the Invite Right Check Out a Sculpture in The most essential component was the creation of a prospectus that would be furnished to potential participants. Again armed with the Park Prospectus Online Kobald’s advice and through consultation with other organizations and The Downtown St. Charles agencies that had mounted similar displays, the committee came up Partnership and St. Charles Park with a sixteen-point document that covered everything from size of the District’s “Sculpture in the Park” overall piece and preferred media, to instructions for mounting the prospectus covers everything from the size of the overall sculpture, to public relations and marketing assistance. piece and preferred media, to instructions for mounting the To entice an artist’s interest, the committee offers a stipend of sculpture, to public relations and marketing assistance. If $500 for one sculpture and $750 for a maximum of two pieces. you are thinking of staging a similar event at your agency, Nothing, if they can help it, is left to chance. The document even why not have a look at this model document? precisely pinpoints the time artists are to deliver their work on the day of installation. From the IAPD Web site The Park District insures each sculpture for a maximum of $10,000, while the Downtown St. Charles Partnership assumes (www.Ilparks.org) … responsibility for paying the deductible, up to $1,000 per piece. Roll to the “Publications” tab on the left side of the Insurance covers the cost of repairing damaged pieces, or, in the event home page. Click on the “Illinois Parks and Recreation the piece is not repairable, the cost of replication of the piece by the Magazine” option to take you to the magazine page. You’ll sculptor, up to a $10,000 maximum. find links to all Web Xtras on the bottom of the page. “The prospectus was terribly important,” says Klimek. “We wanted everything spelled out up front. We didn’t want any confusion or errors From the IPRA Web site made in that part of the process.” (www.IPRAonline.com) … Check out www.IPRAonline.com/resources/publications.
14 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.IPRAonline.com the installation. Based on observations brought back from sculpture garden tours and advice from Kobald, the park district has created concrete slabs measuring 36”x36”x6” for larger, life-sized pieces, and 36” tall pedestals with a 14”x14” base for smaller pieces. These exact dimensions are specified in the prospectus, as are the size of the bolts to be used in mounting the sculptures. Artists also are required to submit a template board with exact mounting instructions with their work. On the day of installation, park district staff is on hand all day long, working side-by-side with the artists to set up the exhibition. But even with such meticulous planning and labor management, the shows have not been totally trouble free. All public art show organizers know they are putting themselves at the mercy of both Mother Nature and the general public. But the park district considers itself extremely lucky in that only three out of the dozens of pieces displayed during its four-year history have been damaged. Two pieces sustained relatively minor harm, and one was moved to an indoor location for the duration of the show. Another, however, was stolen outright when vandals were able to completely remove it from its base. Such experiences led to the committee’s specifying more durable mounting devices and better installation practices.
The Financing and the Payoffs Ray Kobald with ‘Nice Pear’. MeetingRaising thea room necessary full of fundsnew people to stage can such be intimidating.an exhibition hasLearning proven how to toplay be baseball, another eye-openingwhen everyone challenge, else is alreadyaccording so goodto Brown. at it, Thoughcan be daunting. muchTrying ofto thefit in marketing with peers and who public may relationsnot understand expenses, can fabrication be overwhelming. and installationBringing recreational costs are providedopportunities or are to partially residents offset with by special in-kind needs is not QUICK TIPS donations,any of these producing things. such an extensive public art display requires significant Individuals funding. with Thespecial committee needs approach launched recreation an ambitious in a sponsorshipslightly different Not every park district is lucky enough to have an experienced campaignmanner. And carried sometimes out through it can extensive, be overwhelming. one-on-one But solicitations with a solid of inclusion sculptor ready to guide it down the artistic and logistic path. Based localprogram businesses supported and by individuals. both a park Sponsorships and recreation start agency as low and as the$500 local on Kobald’s informed guidance and through its own trial-and-error forspecial the Copperrecreation Level association and run all(SRA), the way the upexperience to $10,000 can beand rewarding above for for experience, the St. Charles Park District advises other sculpture Platinumeveryone andLevel can commitment. push the doors Donors to recreation receive escalating wide open. name garden organizers to: recognition as their level of contribution increases. What While is allInclusion? artwork is available for sale, it is the committee’s goal, if · Do your homework. Talk to as many agencies, organizations, funding With permits,the passage to purchase of the Americans a sculpture with each Disabilities year to add Act, to individuals the park who and artists as possible to find out what works and what doesn’t. havedistrict’s special permanent needs havecollection. the right Michele to choose Moushey whether Dale’s they ‘Natural wish to: a) participateWonders’ sculpture in programs and specificallyBruce Niemi’s designed ‘Interim for X’ those pieces with were special needs; · Hit the road. Visit sculpture gardens to get an idea of the b)purchased participate in 2008in programs and 2007, with theirrespectively. peers in Also,their thehome park park district and aesthetics and logistics involved in creating an appealing public recreationowns two otheragency; sculptures, or, c) a combination both given to of the both. St. IfCharles participation community: in a park art display. agencyJohn Kobald’s program ‘At is the the Riv choice,er’s Edge’ inclusion was donated services bydesigned the Ray to and meet Phyllis an individual’sKobald family specific and Howard need within Russo’s a program ‘Framework provide of a every Donut’ opportunity was for · Sweat the small stuff. Create a prospectus that outlines every themdonated to performby the Public at their Art highest Committee. level of abilities. single contingency imaginable, from insurance to sales We,“Sculpture as recreation in the Park”providers, continues need toto achieveencourage success and facilitate by offering the a commissions. inclusiondiverse and process growing by collectionlearning how of exclusive best to accommodate sculptural artwork and meetin a parkan individual’ssetting. The needsfirst year’s so that exhibit we are received providing many equal community fun for everyone. accolades, With the · Hope for the best, prepare for the worst. Have a plan in place partnershipincluding the of St. your Charles SRA, parkChamber agencies of Commerce can meet Civicthe ADA Image requirements, Award. In that includes insurance coverage of repairs or replacement, and thelater needs years, of it residentsqualified andfor grants encourage from lifelongthe Illinois recreation Arts Council. customers. But physical security to monitor exhibit sites. more than money or fame, the project ultimately not only brings thousands of visitors, it also gives residents and visitors the Communication Determines Success · Be inviting. Organize an opening day artists’ reception that is opportunity to experience singular, quality artwork in an outdoor The key to success is working together as a cohesive team: park agency open, free of charge, to the public. Get the word out through setting, thus encouraging the interplay between art and nature. And staff, parents and SRA staff must all work cooperatively for the inclusion enticing signage, banners and posters and through media truly, that’s the best of both worlds. process to succeed. Good communication among all the partners will releases to local print and broadcast outlets. assure a positive inclusion experience. Carol Haggas is a professional freelance writer for the St. Charles Park The process begins at the point of registration. A specific request for · Get it in writing. Use any and all means of communication with District. services has to be made by the family to the park agency. “Parents are key artists and keep contact information organized for easy and to identifying needs and making special requests,” says Megan Raitt, frequent updating. Erikapreschool Young and is campsthe public supervisor relations at andthe Wheatonmarketing Park manager District. of “Thethe St. more Charles Park District. information they can communicate to us, the sooner we can coordinate · Go for quality, not quantity. Small shows of superlative artwork services with our SRA. Additionally, it is important for the family to keep in will reap larger, long-term benefits than large displays of ho-hum contact with us if anything changes or there is a need to drop or switch a art. Theprogram.” St. Charles Park District’s “Sculpture in the Park” program runs May through mid-October each year. People of all ages are welcome to enjoy The request is then sent to the SRA where an open assessment of the · Think locally. Centering an exhibition around local or regional thisparticular free exhibit needs of of original the individual sculpture. begins. Mt. St. What Mary typePark ofis disabilitylocated along does the Route 31 at Prairie Street along the beautiful Fox River in downtown St. artists not only celebrates talent in your own backyard, it also child have and at what level can he or she function? Is the child Charles. For more information, contact the St. Charles Park District, 101 reduces expenses for both artists and show organizers. participating to develop a new skill, looking for social interaction or trying to South Second Street, St. Charles, IL, 60174. Phone: 630-584-1055. www.stcparks.org.elevate his or her level of independence? SRAs work closely with the family to determine the goal of the inclusion support, and then the SRA and the family continue to work together to determine the level of support deemed
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January 28-30, 2010 Hilton Chicago - Chicago, Illinois GENERAL INFORMATION
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Agency Showcase 2010 19 WELCOME AND GREETINGS TO ALL! Conference At-A-Glance 24 Conference Exhibitors 46-47 Continuing Education Units 20 We look forward to warmly welcoming you to the 2010 IAPD/IPRA Exhibit Hall Information 20 Soaring to New Heights Conference! General Information 19-23 Student Events 23, 43 As always your Joint Conference Committee has been working hard and diligently collaborating to bring you all the very best our field has THURSDAY, JANUARY 28 to offer – from creative education to the latest and greatest products Evening Social 29 and services to a variety of social and networking opportunities. You Office Support Workshop 28 have shared your ideas with us and we have worked hard to and Luncheon implement them and to make conference the best experience for you! Pre-Conference Workshops 25-27 Conference is the place to be! FRIDAY, JANUARY 29 We have all faced a number of challenges over the past year and now Conference Workshops 31-35 is the time to continue a consistent involvement in your professional Conference Sessions At-A-Glance 30 association. In turbulent economic times it is crucial to maintain your Opening General Session 33 professional contacts and networks as well as keep up on the latest in with Chris Gardner professional development. Table Reservation System 23
We hope to see you in January… don’t miss it! SATURDAY, JANUARY 30 Conference Workshops 36-40 JOE STANFA DANA SEEHAFER Conference Sessions At-A-Glance 36 President Senior Manager of Operations Evening Social 41 Chicago Heights Park District NISRA IAPD Conference Co-Chair IPRA Conference Co-Chair REGISTRATION FORMS Published by: Advance Registration Form 44 ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION ILLINOIS PARK AND Spouse/Guest Registration OF PARK DISTRICTS RECREATION ASSOCIATION Extra Function Tickets 211 East Monroe Street 1815 South Meyers Road, Suite 400 Pre-Conference Workshops Springfield, IL 62701 Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 Office Support Workshop P: 217-523-4554; F: 217-523-4273 P: 630-376-1911; F: 630-376-1919 www.ILparks.org www.ipraonline.com and Luncheon Professional Connection 43 Designed by: Registration Form GOSS GRAPHIC DESIGN Housing Form 42 1806 North Oakcrest Avenue Decatur, IL 62526 P: 217-423-4739 www.gossgrfx.com
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ACCESSIBILITY ALL NEW! Parking: Parking at the Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House are accessible for persons with disabilities. Restrooms: Restrooms throughout the lobby and meeting room floors are accessible. Meeting Rooms: All meeting rooms are accessible. Restaurants: All restaurants are accessible. Sleeping Rooms: The Hilton Chicago has accessible room with roll-in showers. Please request an accessible room when making your reservation.
A.D.A. AND SERVICES FOR THE HEARING A spirited competition spotlighting bright ideas exhibited by IMPAIRED park and recreation agencies. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the IAPD/IPRA The 2009 Agency Showcase competition will feature new Joint Conference Committee will make all reasonable efforts to and improved entry categories, a revised judging process, accommodate persons with disabilities. Please indicate any special needs exciting exhibition opportunities and a special awards on your registration form or call IPRA at 630-376-1911 no later than ceremony. December 11, 2009. If you have special needs regarding hotel accommodations, please contact the Hilton Chicago at 877-865-5320 or Don’t miss this chance to spotlight your agency’s marketing the Palmer House at 877-865-5321. Hearing impaired individuals who and communication materials! require TTDs may call 800-526-0844 and the Illinois Relay Center will transmit the message to IAPD or IPRA. New and improved entry categories!
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Marketing Campaign ANNUAL MEETINGS FOR IAPD AND IPRA Public Relations The Illinois Park and Recreation Association (IPRA) Annual Meeting will be held on Friday, January 29, 2010 at 5:00 pm in the Grand Ballroom. The Print Advertisement Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD) Annual Meeting will be held on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at 3:30 pm in the Grand Ballroom. Print Communication The associations have staggered their annual meetings in order to Web Content accommodate elected officials and professionals who would like to attend one or both meetings. Two ways to enter! For more information on the Agency Showcase competition, visit www.ilparksconference.com/awards
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CONFERENCE CAFÉ – CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS (CEUs) NORTHEAST EXHIBIT HALL The 2010 IAPD/IPRA Joint Conference Committee and the Illinois Park and Recreation Certification Board are very pleased to announce that all sessions and workshops offered at the 2010 conference will award CEUs. All sessions scheduled for an hour and fifteen minutes will award 0.1 CEUs; all sessions scheduled for two hours will award 0.2 CEUs; and all pre-conference workshops will award 0.3 CEUs. If you are a professional and would like to apply for CEUs, please indicate so in your conference registration (see page 44). No additional CEU fees for Friday and Saturday sessions and workshops will be charged this year. However, you must request CEUs on your registration. CEU fees for pre-conference workshops will still be charged at $5 per workshop.
EVENT LOCATIONS Conference Registration: Main Level, 8th Street Entrance Don’t miss the opportunity to network with your fellow professionals, Conference Headquarters: Lower Level, Mobley Room commissioners and colleagues from across the state in the Conference Café. This networking lounge is located on the lower level Conference Café: Lower Level, Northeast Exhibit Hall in the Northeast Exhibit Hall. Conference Concierge: Lower Level, Foyer Cyber Café Cyber Café is back! You will be able to check your e-mail, navigate Exhibit Hall: Lower Level, Northwest, Southwest and Southeast park and recreation agency Web sites and learn more about your Exhibit Halls state associations’ sites. Thursday Evening Social: International Ballroom
Conference Sessions and Conference Workshops: Throughout the hotel
All-Conference Awards Luncheon: International Ballroom
Saturday Evening Social: International Ballroom
EXHIBIT HALL INFORMATION The 2010 IAPD/IPRA Exhibit Hall will open at 2:00 pm on Thursday, January 28, 2010.
Hours Available: Come visit more than 300 commercial manufacturers, distributors, Thursday, January 28 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm designers and educational booths. The exhibits will showcase the Friday, January 29 9:00 am – 5:00 pm newest equipment, supplies, ideas and services available to park, Saturday, January 30 9:00 am – 12:00 pm recreation, forest preserve, conservation and therapeutic agencies. Plan to spend several hours in the exhibit hall viewing the displays SPECIAL THANKS TO SIKICH ICS TECHNOLOGY and visiting with exhibitors. All exhibits will be located on the lower DIVISION level in the Northwest, Southwest and Southeast Exhibit Halls. Proud sponsor of the Cyber Café Each registered delegate will have the opportunity to win a variety of Silent Auction cash prizes, which will be awarded at various times throughout the The Illinois Park and Recreation Foundation, in conjunction with the conference. Entry blanks will be in the registration materials that you IPRA College and University Relations Committee, once again will must pick up at Conference Registration. You must be present to win. conduct the Silent Auction located in the Conference Café. Rules and regulations will apply. Conference delegates will have the opportunity to bid on such items as weekend get-a-ways, tickets to sporting events and golf packages. The auction is an easy way to purchase valuable services and products for yourself and your agency. Proceeds from the auction will support student scholarships in Illinois.
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EXHIBIT HALL HOURS MEET NO EMPLOYEE LEFT BEHIND (NELB)… Thursday, January 28: In 2007, the IPRA Health and Fitness Task Force was created to 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Grand Opening identify key health and wellness issues affecting our profession. Upon Friday, January 29: investigating the best routes to accomplish this, they determined that 9:00 am – 11:30 am and 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm the focus needed to start with the professionals in the field. *Dessert served from 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm. This is a ticketed event. Saturday, January 30: After almost two years of research and development the task force, 8:30 am – 11:00 am now an IPRA Committee, found it critical to help agencies to identify *Breakfast available from 8:30 am – 10:00 am. and achieve a high level of health and wellness for their employees This is a ticketed event. and to recognize their achievements. The IAPD/IPRA Soaring to New Heights Conference has the largest exhibit hall of any state park and recreation conference in the country. As a result, the No Employee Left Behind (NELB) Award was Be sure to visit and win a prize! created. The award is comprised of six components, for which criteria have been developed: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, SPECIAL THANKS TO environmental and spiritual. Applying agencies will receive Standards W-T ENGINEERING, INC. and Compliance guidelines and the first award will be given at the Proud sponsor of breakfast in the exhibit hall 2010 IAPD/IPRA Soaring to New Heights Conference. Agencies in the running for this award are: Oak Lawn Park District, Northbrook Park District, Park Ridge Recreation and Park District, Rockford Park HOUSING AND HOTEL REGISTRATION District and Glenview Park District. MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLY! The NELB logo will appear next to health and wellness focused Our host hotel is the Hilton Chicago, sessions offered at this year’s conference. Please attend these very 720 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago important sessions! Questions regarding the NELB award and the P: 877-865-5320; F: 312-663-6528 work of the Health and Wellness Committee can be directed to www.ilparksconference.com (Click on Registration and Hotel LoriKay Paden, Education and Community Services Coordinator at Information) the University of Illinois, 217-265-5296 or [email protected]. Rates: $114/Single or Double; $134/Triple; $144/Quad
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*When calling to make your reservation, be sure to indicate you are attending the IAPD/IPRA Conference and mention the group code POLICY ON CHILDREN APD to ensure you receive the discounted room rate. To preserve the professional business environment and ensure a quality educational atmosphere at the IAPD/IPRA Soaring to New Rooms are reserved on a first-come, first-served basis. Heights Conference, conference sessions and workshops, social events and the exhibit hall, no one under the age of 18 years will be The cut-off date for reservations is January 5, 2010. After this date, allowed to participate in these functions or areas unless the person is room reservations may pay a higher hotel rate and are subject to a speaker or a registered full- or part-time student in a college or availability. university and is attending the conference for the purpose of professional development and networking opportunities. Suites: IAPD member agencies or IPRA members interested in reserving a suite must contact Dina Kartch at IPRA first at 630-376- 1911 x200. Forty-eight hours after IPRA has given approval, you must contact the Hilton Chicago or the Palmer House directly. Exhibitors interested in reserving a suite must contact Sue Triphahn at IAPD first at 847-496-4449. Forty-eight hours after IAPD has given approval, you must contact the Hilton Chicago or the Palmer House directly.
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POLICY ON MEMBERS AND NONMEMBERS Registrations will not be accepted after December 11, 2009. The following persons will be allowed to register at the member rate: Registration will, however, be taken online at www.ilparksconference.com and onsite at the conference, but at a · Members of the Illinois Park and Recreation Association higher rate.
· Commissioners/park board members, attorneys, board treasurers Conference Registration at the Hilton Chicago will be open during and board secretaries of agencies that are members of the Illinois the following hours: Association of Park Districts Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:30 am – 6:00 pm Friday, January 29, 2010 7:30 am – 4:30 pm · A maximum of six support staff from IAPD member agencies Saturday, January 30, 2010 7:30 am – 11:30 am (“Support staff” is defined as clerical and maintenance personnel only.) Each registered delegate will receive their name badge, event tickets and CEU coupons (if applicable) onsite at conference. After Requests from other persons or agencies asking for member rates registering you will receive an email confirmation with a bar code – will be presented to the Joint Conference Committee for approval please bring this with you to conference. This confirmation as well prior to conference. as a photo ID will be required to pick up your registration materials. Once onsite there will be a $5 charge to reprint your name badge and EVENT TICKETS WILL NOT BE REPRINTED. You must purchase REGISTRATION INFORMATION new tickets at the current onsite price in order to attend any ticketed events. You will not be permitted into the exhibit hall, Early Bird Registration Deadline is Friday, December 11, 2009. conference sessions or workshops without the proper name badge. Register online at www.ilparksconference.com and save $25 per registration.
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SPECIAL DIETS AND… DON’T FORGET TO GO GREEN AT Persons with special dietary needs may make special arrangements CONFERENCE AND EVERY DAY! by calling Dina Kartch at IPRA at 630-376-1911 x200 no later than IPRA’s Environmental Committee would like to remind you that it is December 11, 2009. Easy to Be Green!
It’s easy to be green with online registration! Visit the conference SPOUSE/GUEST PROGRAM AND Web site at www.ilparksconference.com and click on the REGISTRATION Registration and Hotel Information link. You will save $25 per All spouses or guests must register in order to participate in the registration package as an added bonus for registering online! conference, visit the exhibit hall and attend special programs. Spouses or guests must have no affiliation with or be employed by a Be sure to visit the IPRA Environmental Committee booth located park and recreation agency. Registration will include a name badge in the Conference Café. We’ll be sharing some valuable resources for admission to the Exhibit Hall, Thursday Evening Social, Opening and highlighting our current projects. As parks and recreation General Session, conference sessions and workshops on Friday and professionals it is our responsibility to set a green example and the Saturday. Tickets for the All-Conference Awards Luncheon, Saturday committee has the tools necessary to help agencies be breakfast in the Exhibit Hall and the Saturday Evening Social will be environmental leaders. We can’t wait to meet you! available for purchase. See page 44 for registration. Please join us in participating in several environmental initiatives during conference and “get caught” being green. You’ll be rewarded by a member of IPRA’s Environmental Committee. Receptacles for STUDENT EVENTS recycling paper will be located in the conference registration area Professional Connection and be sure to bring along a reusable water bottle and mug. Thursday, January 28, 2010 from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm See page 43 for details and registration.
Student Luncheon Friday, January 29, 2010 from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Officers Meeting Saturday, January 30, 2010 from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
TABLE RESERVATION SYSTEM FOR THE ALL- CONFERENCE AWARDS LUNCHEON – NEW PROCESS THIS YEAR! Delegates who opt to reserve a table for the Friday All-Conference Awards Luncheon, must indicate so on the registration form on page 44 or when registering online. The table reservation fee is $50 and is nonrefundable. The person who is designated the table contact/coordinator will receive an email with full detailed instructions on the table registration process, which will be managed entirely online this year. The table contact/coordinator will need to assign registered delegates to their reserved table in order to receive a table assignment. There will be no onsite table reservations taken. Register early to ensure the best possible table selection. All reserved tables will be tables of 10. You must have a full table.
WHAT TO WEAR Exhibit Hall Grand Opening: Casual business attire Thursday Evening Social: Comfortable, casual clothes Friday All-Conference Awards Luncheon: Business attire Saturday Evening Social: Casual attire
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Thursday, January 28
7:30 am – 6:00 pm Conference Registration Open 8:30 am – 12:00 pm Pre-Conference Workshops (0.3 CEUs) 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Office Support Luncheon and Workshop 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm Pre-Conference Workshops (0.3 CEUs) 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm Grand Opening of the Exhibit Hall Visit more than 300 exhibitors and educational booths displaying the most recent products and services for the parks, recreation, forest preserve and conservation industry. 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Professional Connection – Students and Professionals 9:00 pm – 12:00 am Thursday Evening Social with Hat Guys Enjoy visiting with new and old friends, music and dancing!
Friday, January 29
7:30 am – 4:30 pm Conference Registration Open 9:00 am – 11:00 am Conference Workshops (0.2 CEUs) 9:00 am – 11:30 am Exhibit Hall Open 9:30 am – 10:45 am Conference Sessions (0.1 CEUs) 11:15 am – 12:00 pm Opening General Session with Chris Gardner 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Student Luncheon 12:15 pm – 2:15 pm All-Conference Awards Luncheon* IAPD and IPRA will present top awards to elected officials, legislators and professionals. After the luncheon, take a trip to the exhibit hall to visit with exhibitors and enjoy dessert and stop by the Illinois Park and Recreation Foundation’s Silent Auction, located in the Conference Café in the Northeast Exhibit Hall. 1:30 pm – 5:00 pm Exhibit Hall Open 2:15 pm – 3:15 pm Desserts in the Exhibit Hall* 2:45 pm – 4:45 pm Conference Workshops (0.2 CEUs) 3:00 pm – 4:15 pm Conference Sessions (0.1 CEUs) 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm IPRA Annual Business Meeting
Saturday, January 30
8:30 am – 11:00 am Exhibit Hall Open 8:30 am – 10:00 am Breakfast in the Exhibit Hall* Sponsored By: W-T Engineering, Inc.
10:15 am – 12:15 pm Conference Workshops (0.2 CEUs) 10:30 am – 11:45 am Conference Sessions (0.1 CEUs) 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm Conference Sessions (0.1 CEUs) 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Conference Workshops (0.2 CEUs) 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Conference Sessions (.01 CEUs) 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm IAPD Annual Business Meeting 6:30 pm –10:30 pm Saturday Evening Social*
*Ticketed event
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Pre-Conference Workshops that support the importance of not only budget and maximize your program 8:30 am - 12:00 pm delivering service, but managing service; (2) enrollments across the board. You’ll be be challenged to better serve their customers leaping tall buildings in a single bound! All pre-conference workshops award 0.3 by acknowledging the benefits of measuring (With no budget, of course!) CEUs, pending approval. Pre-registration is and managing customer service at every Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) mandatory. Register online at area of their facilities and agencies. write ads, flyers and descriptions of park www.ILparksconference.com or see page 44. district program offerings using a more 302 (AF) targeted, sales-focused effort to increase 11 (IPRA) value perception, positive comparison and Leadership and Coaching for Fund Raising or Interest Raising? enrollment; (2) readily identify several Maxmium Performance and Finding New Revenue Streams While marketing techniques that major Productivity Developing a Major Gift Culture in corporations use every day and be able to 8:30 am - 12:00 pm see how their park district can begin to use Your Agency Price: $65 these same weapons for the benefit of the 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Presenter(s): Steve Beck, President, Beck park district and its residents; (3) more fully Price: $75 and Associates understand what the media really wants and Presenter(s): Bruce Berglund, President, Chair: Beverly Wolf, Lombard Park District needs today and have a proactive system to Triangle2 Resource Development Group Leading and coaching your employees to generate more positive press for their park Chair: Sheila Mulvey-Tatoris, IPRA reach their maximum performance and district. This workshop will investigate how you can productivity levels are huge tasks that all find and cultivate hidden major gift prospects managers face. In this highly interactive that are already involved in your programs. 501 (TR) workshop, Steve Beck will give you effective How to Have World Class Staff Together we will explore how to narrow your coaching tips that will allow you to unlock focus to a Top 20 prospect list and how to the potential of each of your employees. You Training: Outstanding Methods and further engage them and grow their interest. will come away knowing the important rules Activities Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) for leadership success, able to develop and 8:30 am - 12:00 pm understand how to focus their cultivation and implement sound leadership and coaching Price: $70 interest raising efforts to a Top 20 list of plans for your department or agency. Presenter(s): Michael Brandwein, Speaker, major gift prospects; (2) gain a renewed Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Educator and Author interest in the value of individual major gift understand how teams can become more Chair: Jennifer Johnson, Tri County Special cultivation and how it can provide a new productive and efficient through the use of Recreation Association source of revenue and community effective coaching techniques; (2) discuss Grab your staff’s attention with these ready- engagement. the steps a manager must take in order to to-use activities and materials that ensure lead his or her team efficiently and that they’re really learning useful skills and 101 (IAPD) effectively. not just sitting there. Learn how to train staff Managing Your to use the ten, no prop, no prep “purposeful Customer Service 426 (REC) play” games and activities that all day camp staff should know and can use right away to Delivery Achieving the teach important life skills to campers. 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Impossible: Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Price: $75 Selling More gain training methods that maximize actual Presenter(s): Eileen Programs and and lasting learning of practical skills by Soisson, President, increasing active participation and applying The Meeting Institute Spending Less in Advertising and superbly effective teaching principles; (2) Chair: Mary Ann use provided materials to teach essential Chambers, Northbrook Park District Marketing staff skills, increase staff professionalism This workshop will define customer service in 8:30 am - 12:00 pm and make staff “get” that this is a real job. a mission-oriented statement as well as Price: $75 identify the needed culture for top quality Presenter(s): Bill service to thrive. The five key service delivery Guertin, CEO, The 800-Pound Gorilla steps will be addressed so agencies can set Chair: Kelly LaMore, Bourbonnais Township recreational training standards to exceed the Park District customers’ service expectations. With all that’s going on in today’s economy, Management methods such as orientation, how do you get more people to respond to training and evaluation do not happen your programs using less money than you enough within agencies. had last year? Come learn from Bill Guertin’s Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) 25-year background in creating successful make the connection between customer media campaigns for hundreds of businesses service delivery and customer loyalty, thus and doing it on a small-market budget! From increasing revenues; statistics will be shared brochures and program guides to the very latest in social media, you’ll learn how to squeeze the most from your marketing
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603 (FM) 1004 (EMS) Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Effective Security and Emergency Programming for identify supervisory skills for interns, which Preparedness Latino Residents when applied, lead to outcome achievements; (2) will understand how to create an internship 8:30 am - 12:00 pm 8:30 am - 12:00 pm manual or have the opportunity to compare Price: $75 Price: $75 their agency’s manual to best practices. Presenter(s): Paul Timm, President, RETA Presenter(s): Security, Inc. Catherine Popwits, Chair: Karen Spandikow, Oakbrook Park President, Diversity 102 (IAPD) District Training and Tackling Problems This workshop will review park-specific Consulting, Inc. and Conflicts security and emergency preparedness issues Chair: Gail Ito, 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm with the purpose of increasing awareness Chicago State Price: $75 and improving response capabilities. The University Presenter(s): Eileen presentation will include “lessons learned” Get your agency on track for serving the Soisson, President, The from past incidents, interactive photo- largest growing population in Illinois. Learn Meeting Institute identification examples and an emergency to serve community residents from Mexico Chair: Bob Schmidt, table-top exercise. Don’t miss this important and other Latin American countries. Schaumburg Park and timely topic. Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) District Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) discover why some Latino residents may be Problems and conflict receive practical security strategies they can hesitant to use park district services - what are inevitable within the workplace so it is implement at little or no cost; (2) benefit cultural values impact the way Latino better to be prepared with a game plan. The from helpful security resources that will residents view the park district; (2) discuss sooner we acknowledge that problems exist assist in reducing risk. how to assess the needs of your Latino and will inevitably happen regardless of where residents and design park district services to we work, the faster we can address the 908 (CM) meet those needs; (3) practice strategies for attitude with which we handle problems, Wired Writing Workshop: How to building strong relationships with Latino conflict and change. Just like football players patrons; (4) explore other ways to increase who rush out onto the field, we have to follow Write for Screens, Spiders, Networks park district use by Latino residents. and People! a plan to play both offensively and defensively. Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) 8:30 am - 12:00 pm engage in a fun football-themed workshop and Price: $70 address problems and conflict resolution within Presenter(s): Barbara Rozgonyi, Founder, Pre-Conference Workshops the workplace, as well as the people, CoryWest Media, LLC personalities and situations (“fumbles”) that Chair: Lisa Leone, Lisle Park District 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm cause them; (2) leave this workshop feeling No matter what your grades were in English All pre-conference workshops award 0.3 more empowered to control the problems and class, chances are your teachers taught you CEUs, pending approval. Pre-registration is conflicts in an effective, productive and upbeat how to write for print. But, great grammar mandatory. Register online at manner. and spotless spelling aren’t what you need www.ILparksconference.com or see page 44. for success in writing online. In this workshop, you will learn how to compose, 12 (IPRA) 301 (AF) format, package, repurpose and send your Supervisory Benchmark Checks for Brand You: Personal Branding for message so it gets action. You can use these Successful Management of Interns Success in Your Professional and skills every day in every message you Personal Lives compose to be read online (and off). 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm Price: $75 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Price: $65 learn to organize and create informative or Presenter(s): Lee Ann Fisk, Recreation Supervisor, Homewood-Flossmoor Park Presenter(s): Julius Rhodes, President, The persuasive content that generates results; MPR Group (2) learn to use tools and strategies to District; Lyle Hicks, Chairman, Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism, University of Chair: Nancy Aldrich, Arlington Heights Park package content for multiple applications District from print to online applications such as St. Francis; Donna McCauley, Professor, Moraine Valley Community College The world is comprised of many different types Facebook and Twitter and create a workplan of individuals all vying for essentially the same that will guide consistent development Chair: Melissa Rimzdius, Homewood- Flossmoor Park District thing: to live the best life possible on a throughout the organization to save time and personal and professional basis, while improve quality. Learn how to ensure a successful and professional internship experience for both providing for and making things the best they the student intern and the internship can be for those they love and who depend on supervisor. BONUS OFFER: Upon completion them. In this workshop, Julius Rhodes will use of this workshop and a review of your practical and experiential tools to help you existing or new internship manual, each establish and solidify your own personal brand agency will receive one free six-month so you can obtain the successes you strive for internship post on the IPRA Web site, a in your personal and professional lives. $200 value.
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Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) doing to gain market share, retain top-of- 602 (FM) understand the principles of brand mind awareness and stay on top of their Maximizing Your Personal establishment and how they can apply to an game. You’ll learn the 12 Attributes of 800- Performance: Strategies to Action individual’s personal and professional lives; Pound Gorillas and how your agency can Without Climbing Mount Everest (2) learn how to develop your own individual leverage your current position to one of 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm strategic template of actions that is needed dominance in your marketplace. Just to establish and solidify your personal brand. because you’re a park district doesn’t mean Price: $75 you can’t be the biggest player in the jungle! Presenter(s): Dr. Gran Goold, Department Just one “a-ha” moment in this workshop Chair, EMS Education, American River 415 (REC) College What’s Your IQ (Inclusion Quotient)? will be worth your entire trip to conference! Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Chair: Laura Clark, Bartlett Park District 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm identify the 12 attributes of “800-Pound This dynamic and lively workshop will Price: $75 Gorillas” in business and relate those provide open discussion on the challenges to Presenter(s): John McGovern, J.D., attributes to actionable objectives in their effective goal setting and, more importantly, President, Recreation Accessibility own park districts; (2) see the connection achieving goals. Proven action strategies are Consultants, LLC between the steps dominant businesses take presented that are realistic, flexible and Chair: Jodi Gosse, Homewood-Flossmoor to achieve their status and the steps park attainable in an effort to maximize personal Park District districts can take to achieve that same success. Participants will leave with new A second wave of inclusion issues is status in their own communities; (3) see tools designed to improve and increase happening as evidenced by the growing how a more dominant park district can personal accomplisments. number of inclusion placements in the benefit everyone in the communities they Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) north, northwest and western suburbs of serve. identify and discuss common roadblocks to Chicago. At the same time, senior centers goal achievement and personal success; (2) are experiencing the first requests for commit and integrate a variety of action inclusion support. Are you ready to face the 502 (TR) strategies during personal goal development future of inclusion? Be proactive and be The Superb Camp Director’s Master and implementation. prepared! Toolbox: How to Lead Camp to the Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Best Session Ever 915 (CM) review the basics in the inclusion process 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm Real-ize Your Virtual Brand: New and model and discuss innovative solutions Price: $70 to inclusion issues; (2) learn from court and Age Marketing/PR for Park Districts Presenter(s): Michael Brandwein, Speaker, 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm administrative decisions about the Educator and Author application of the Americans with Price: $70 Chair: Jennifer Johnson, Tri County Special Presenter(s): Barbara Rozgonyi, Founder, Disabilities Act that apply to public Recreation Association recreation for adults and youth. CoryWest Media, LLC This dynamic workshop is packed with Chair: Jessica Alexenko, Lisle Park District practical, immediately-useable skills and 427 (REC) Learn how to capture attention, start a techniques to boost your camp’s success. conversation and convert searchers into The 800-Pound Topics to be covered include: recruiting and customers using the power of virtual public Gorilla of Sales: retaining the superstar staff that brings relations! With the dawn of the social media How to Become campers back; secrets to successful revolution, the standard press release interviewing; “set yourself apart from the evolved into a dynamic new format that lets the Most competition” marketing and programming for Dominant Player you take control of the story, presentation camp so that it goes beyond fun and and distribution. Discover how you can tap in Your Market recreation and provides youth development into the PR power of the Internet - today 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm parents crave; keeping and serving older and tomorrow - create news releases that Price: $75 campers with a real leadership in training attract readers, robots and search engines Presenter(s): Bill program; creating an outstanding staff and and dramatically increase your online Guertin, CEO, The camper culture; working with parents as visibility overnight. 800-Pound Gorilla positive partners and more! Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Chair: Kelly LaMore, Bourbonnais Township Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) learn how to bypass the press and easily Park District maximize staff quality with innovative track search engine rankings and readership Parks and recreation has been too tame in methods in finding and selecting superstar for future success; (2) learn to masterfully selling their programs for too long! Based on staff and bringing out their best; (2) learn convert simple press releases into his brand-new book, The 800-Pound Gorilla the secrets to make camp more than just fun multimedia web sites. of Sales, author Bill Guertin shares what the - create a quality youth development best and most admired companies in the program so that parents and campers crave world such as McDonald’s, Procter & your camp. Gamble, Zappos, Walmart and eBay are
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How to Stay Energized in a Changing World with Greg Risberg, MSW, CSP Office Support Luncheon and Workshop:
Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Pre-registration is mandatory; registration form on page 44. Price: $89 This fee includes lunch.
This session is perfect for your office support or administrative staff!
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Registration/Interactive Luncheon, Grand Ballroom Enjoy lunch in the beautiful Grand Ballroom as the IPRA Environmental Committee facilitates an open forum about “green” products.
12:45 pm - 2:00 pm How to Stay Energized in a Changing World with Greg Risberg, Grand Ballroom Major changes in organizations and increasing work demands multiply stress. This “hilariously informative” program is filled with humor and useful ideas to teach attendees proven techniques to reduce stress and to relax under pressure. With warmth and humor, Greg Risberg, MSW, CSP offers heartwarming stories and helpful suggestions to help you achieve more balance in your life.
Greg is a funny motivational speaker with 25 years experience and who has addressed over 500,000 people in 48 states, as well as Canada, Great Britain and Australia with his “humor with a message” programs. Greg is the author of the recently published 52 Bright Ideas to Bring More Humor, Hugs, and Hope Into Your Life! He offers his audiences useful ways to improve communication, handle stress and increase humor in their lives. Greg has addressed a wide range of audiences, from educators to bankers, from health care providers to insurance personnel.
Greg is a member of the National Speakers Association which awarded him their highest earned designation of “Certified Speaking Professional” in July, 2001. He is one of only 500 speakers in the nation to receive this designation. Greg is also a member of the Illinois Chapter of NSA, a group which awarded him their Wordsmith Award for excellence in speaking.
Greg has a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Roosevelt University and an Master’s Degree in Social Work from the Jane CONFERENCE Addams School of Social Work in Chicago, Illinois.
2:00 pm Tour the Exhibit Hall, Lower Level
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Thursday, January 28 The Hat Guys are a Hilton Chicago, International Ballroom Chicago-based cover 9:00 pm – Midnight band that plays fun, This is not a ticketed event… all are welcome! popular and danceable music ranging from disco, rock, pop and club. They will engage you with a mix of solid musicianship, a top- notch show, energetic dancing and a signature look! FRIDAY CONFERENCE SESSIONS
FRIDAY CONFERENCE SESSIONS
9:30 am - 10:45 am 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm 14 Parks and Recreation Support for Service 13 It’s Your Turn to be a Star! Get Members and Their Families Recognized with the IPRA/IAPD Award 109 Legal/Legislative Part I Programs 111 GASB S-54, Fund Balance Reporting 110 Legal/Legislative Part II and Governmental Fund Type 112 Fundraising 101: The Basics - Definitions Building a Comprehensive 125 How to Maximize Your Agency’s Chance Fundraising System of Receiving an OSLAD Grant 115 17 Ways to Keep Your 201 Green With Enthusiasm: Communicating Commissioners From Getting a Call Environmental Progress Internally and From the State’s Attorney Externally 129 Agency Accreditation: A Blueprint for 204 To Turf or Not To Turf: That is the Excellence Question 203 Landscapers Go Green 205 Going, Going, Gone Green 207 Environmental Property Related Issues 307 How to Protect Your Agency From You Should Be Aware Of Financial Fraud 214 Beyond CPSI: Assessing the Creative 311 Social Networking, the First Amendment Play Area and Your Employees: What Agencies 304 Key Steps to Successfully Fighting Need to Know Unemployment Claims 320 The Outlook is Good: Using Outlook to 308 Making Sense of Your Credit Card Stay Organized Processing, Pricing and Statements 407 Mean Girls 309 Record Retention and Destruction: The 409 Making New Connections Local Records Act 417 Athletic Field Usage Roundtable 313 In-House vs Outsourced Payroll: The 420 So You Want to be a Superintendent? Good, the Bad and the Costly! 509 Visual Systems Made Easy 404 Make Your Gymnastics/Fitness 4 Kids 513 101 Arts Activities for the Non-Artist Programs More Profitable 533 Making Patron Transportation a Safety 406 Teen Programming: 60 Programs in 60 Priority Minutes 614 How Healthy Is Your Fitness Equipment? 414 Parking the Party: Making Birthdays 618 Pool Programming Poolooza Work for You 625 Clarification on the Collection of 421 Performing Arts: Developing Strategic Consultants for a Building Project Relationships 904 Matrix Marketing: How to Coordinate, 518 The Key to Successful Inclusion is Integrate and Activate Your 2010 Successfully Trained Staff Marketing Plans 605 Training Your Non-Water Staff at the Pool 912 Variable Data and Cross-Media 616 Budget Cuts: How is the Economy Marketing Options Affecting Your Fitness Center Operations? 1003 Inequality Issues of Recreation 804 Speed Mentoring Opportunities in Illinois Park Districts 903 Aligning Organizational Strategy with Day to Day Operations 907 Demystifying PR: Five Ways to Become an Expert News Source 911 Marketing Plans
ALL CONFERENCE SESSIONS AWARD 0.1 CEUs, PENDING APPROVAL.. DESCRIPTIONS OF THESE SESSIONS WILL APPEAR IN THE CONFERENCE GUIDE IN THE JANUARY/FEBRUARY ISSUE OF ILLINOIS PARKS AND RECREATION.
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Friday Conference Workshops 105 (IAPD) 121 (IAPD) 9:00 am - 11:00 am I’m Their Leader… Which Way Did Rain Gardens: Bringing Sustainable All conference workshops award 0.2 CEUs, They Go? Stormwater Methods into Public pending approval. Presenters(s): Roy Ellis Moody, Owner, Roy Spaces and Parks Moody and Associates Presenters(s): Phil Stuepfert, Director of 15 (IPRA) Chair: Lori Noonan, Bloomingdale Park Planning, SEC Group, Inc.; Steve District Internal Customer Service: It Starts Vineazeano, Assistant Village Manager, This fast-paced workshop is based on the Village of Niles on the Inside belief that the application of encouragement Chair: Chris Gentes, Round Lake Area Park Presenters(s): Joe DeLuce, Director of skills is an essential ingredient of effective District Recreation, Champaign Park District; leadership. Leadership by encouragement is Issues such as water conservation are at the LoriKay Paden, Community Education and a proven way to produce motivated, forefront now more than ever. By Service Coordinator, University of Illinois energized and committed people. incorporating sustainable stormwater Chair: Sheila Mulvey-Tatoris, IPRA Participants will learn a set of principles and techniques such as rain gardens into parks To provide outstanding customer service and practices that will assist them in getting real and open spaces, these methods become operations to your community you must first results and higher levels of performance. accessible to the public and offer provide excellent service on the inside… Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) be opportunities to learn, interact and observe internal customer service. Most agencies able to describe the characteristics of the how the systems work and hopefully inspire understand the importance of providing encouraging leader; (2) identify the “Basic individuals to take action themselves. The excellent services and products. However, Four” principles of encouraging leadership. Village of Niles, in partnership with Coca- most agencies struggle to create a culture Cola, undertook this effort with the purpose where every employee understands the 118 (IAPD) of reducing runoff and pollutant loads importance of internal customer service. In traveling to local streams and rivers. This order to achieve levels of service that create Board Staff Relationships/Roles workshop will cover the benefits of these loyalty among your participants you need to alternative stormwater techniques and instill a high level of service, support and Presenters(s): Nancy present project examples. motivation from within the agency. Learn Sylvester, Professional Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) how to take your service standards to the Parliamentarian, gain exposure to ideas and opportunities for next level by starting on the inside! Sylvester Enterprises, the implementation of sustainable Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Inc. stormwater techniques in public spaces and learn why internal customer service is the Chair: Jeff Nehila, parks; (2) understand the design process for foundation of providing overall customer Round Lake Area Park sustainable stormwater projects and how to service; (2) learn how to create a positive District develop a site-specific design, including two working environment through the diverse Volunteer, board, staff - case studies; (3) learn how to cultivate key departments, divisions and job duties within each group has different roles and partnerships and how to acquire funding to the agency. responsibilities, yet few of us have a clear ensure a successful project; (4) understand understanding of the distinction between the importance of and learn techniques to 103 (IAPD) them. This workshop will examine the increase education and community different roles and responsibilities and help Motivate Great Teams involvement in sustainable open space participants understand that the best way to projects. Presenters(s): Eileen Soisson, President, The become a better board member is to do Meeting Institute board work better and to become a better Chair: Linda Johnson, Crete Park District staff is to do staff work better and the two 314 (AF) This workshop will teach effective are clearly different! Got Rec Trac Questions? techniques and motivational strategies for Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Presenters(s): Giles Wiley, President, supervisors, managers, superintendents, have a clear understanding of the roles of Vermont Systems directors and board members - all looking to the board, staff and volunteer; (2) Chair: Dale Erdman, Bartlett Park District motivate their team! All of these players are understand the need and methods for the The registration system used in an agency the core to each agency and it is essential board, staff and volunteer to support each provides critical information about clients that they are satisfied with their other. and programs. Learn how to use your environment. As members of the team, all of systems more efficiently. the players must motivate one another by Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) helping each believe they can succeed. Once interact with other users regarding the newly they recognize and understand that you initiated PCI regulations on their system; (2) want them to be successful, all will believe learn how other agencies use Rec Trac in they can accomplish their goals and the marketing and programming. goals of the agency. Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) learn what motivating their teammates is all about and how it benefits them and their agency; (2) identify fun and creative methods for teamwork success while improving leadership skills and practices.
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416 (REC) 503 (TR) Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) be News from Washington DC: Mapping and Building a Career in given real-world scenarios, implement a Recreation Access Updates Recreation variety of unique motivators aligned to Presenters(s): John McGovern, J.D., Presenters(s): John P. Casey, Executive different employee types; (2) identify and President, Recreation Accessibility Trainer, Shamrock Consultants discuss the fundamental causes of employee Consultants, LLC Chair: Michael McNicholas, Special motivation and sub-performance. Chair: Jodi Gosse, Homewood-Flossmoor Recreation Services Park District It's all fun and games after you graduate, but 628 (FM) The development of recreation accessibility where do professionals find the vision for Marketing and Selling Memberships guidelines for playgrounds, pools, golf mapping their career? This session will seek to the Local Community courses, sports fields and courts, boating to map out the opportunities that will help Presenters(s): Frank Guengerich, Executive and fishing areas and fitness areas are define professional direction in the world of Vice President, WTS International finished. Guidelines for developed outdoor recreation. Chair: Cody Kamp, Plainfield Park district recreation areas such as beaches, picnic Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Learn how to develop a comprehensive areas and trails are in the pipeline. But, we learn to self assess interests and aptitudes marketing plan and how to prospect for await final action by the Department of while directing focus in the work place members. Maximize referrals from current Justice which will affect us all. toward areas of long-term interest and short- participants. Effectively close memberships Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) term exposure; (2) learn to practice methods without pressure tactics. Never burn leads review the status of recreation accessibility of discovery and networking beyond the again! guidelines and the content of these meetings and responsibility coordinating that Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) requirements; (2) learn of the best practices is part of everyday work. develop a comprehensive membership for parks and recreation sites and facilities. marketing and sales plan to make sure all 609 (FM) staff are properly trained to close 428 (REC) Great Environments Inspire Great memberships; (2) learn how to capture “The Franchise”: How the Best Activity prospective members to maximize sales as Teams are Built and How They Stay Presenters(s): Dr. William Awe, President maximizing revenue is essential in the That Way and Thom Palmer, Executive Director, current economy. Presenters(s): Bill Guertin, CEO, The 800- Huntley Park District; Dan Nicholas, Pound Gorilla Architect 801 (STUDENT) Chair: Kelly LaMore, Bourbonnais Township Chair: Lori Neubauer, Itasca Park District School, Assignments, INTERNSHIP! Park District Walk through the design and detail of two Presenters(s): Panel of Internship The New York Yankees… Los Angeles newly constructed daily-fee golf clubs. Hear Supervisors and Student Interns Lakers… San Francisco 49ers… Detroit Red from club officials the specifics that drove Chair: Amy Mepham, Chicago State Wings… Chicago Bulls. Great teams are revenue increases in golf, dining and University built much like great workplaces… one banquet/event bookings. Here is your opportunity to bring your person at a time. When everyone Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) questions and concerns to a panel of understands their role in the “big picture”, learn about the connection between internship supervisors from agencies great things can happen! In this dynamic successful facility design and facility throughout Illinois. Make sure there are no workshop, Bill Guertin will outline the key revenue/community involvement; (2) be surprises when you arrive the first day of components of great teams and how you can given specific examples of what to consider your internship! Several college interns will create a “franchise” - a dynasty, a legendary and what questions to ask when planning to speak about their recent experiences. This team - at work. You’ll learn how honesty, revamp their facility or build a new one. workshop is a must-attend for students. accountability and unselfish play are critical Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) to making a great work experience happen. 610 (FM) gain firsthand information about the You’ll leave with a much better I HATE MY JOB! Tools to Motivate, expectations of agencies for interns; (2) understanding of where you’re strong, where Not Castigate, Employees understand the transition from school to the you need to improve and a greater sense of internship agencies. teamwork in getting the job done. You will Presenters(s): Dr. Gran Goold, Department have more fun at work... when the team Chair, EMS Education, American River plays like a “franchise”! College Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Chair: Laura Clark, Bartlett Park District identify the ten key components of great This exciting and realistic workshop will teams and see the connection between their include a frank discussion on major causes actions as athletes and the potential benefits of employee performance… or lack thereof! of those same actions as “team members” of Small group exercises allow immediate an agency; (2) take home several valuable implementation of new motivating strategies experiences and activities designed to foster with a mix of employee types. Participants better teamwork and cooperation among will build new skills to motivate those who individuals and departments. make their lives most difficult.
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Opening General Session with Christopher Gardner, Inspiration for the Film The Pursuit of Happyness Friday, January 29, 2010, 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM Location: Grand Ballroom
illiteracy. Gardner published his autobiography Dedicated to improving the well-being of out of a desire to shed light on these universal children through positive paternal involvement, Breaking Cycles issues and show they do not have to define Gardner is a board member of the National you. Gardner never knew his father and lived Fatherhood Initiative, and received the group’s Christopher Gardner is the head of his own with his beloved mother, Bettye Jean Triplett Father of the Year Award in 2002. He serves successful brokerage firm - but just 25 years (nee Gardner), when not in foster homes. on the board of the National Education ago, he was homeless, carrying all his Gardner is indebted to Bettye Jean for his Foundation and sponsors two annual awards: possessions on his back and occasionally living success as she provided him with strong the National Education Association’s National in a bathroom at a train station. A true “spiritual genetics” and taught him that in spite Educational Support Personnel Award and the testament to perseverance, Gardner tells his of where he came from, he could chart another American Federation of Teachers’ story of overcoming obstacles, “breaking path and attain whatever goals he set for Paraprofessionals and School-Related cycles” and hard-won success. He recounts his himself. Personnel (PSRP) Award. He also serves on the fears of failure, the exhaustion of his pursuit board of the International Rescue Committee, and his great appreciation for those who Gardner joined the Navy out of high school and which works to provide access to safety, helped him. Gardner is a captivating then moved to San Francisco where he worked sanctuary and sustainable change for millions motivational speaker whose storytelling grabs as a medical research associate and for a of people whose lives have been shattered by hold of his audience and his humor lights up scientific medical supply distributor. In 1981, violence and oppression. Gardner is still very the room. as a new father to son Christopher Gardner Jr., committed to Glide Memorial Church in San he was determined to find a career that would Francisco, where he and his son received Christopher Gardner is the owner and CEO of be both lucrative and fulfilling. Fascinated by assistance in the early 1980s. He has helped Gardner Rich LLC with offices in New York, finance, but without connections, an MBA or fund a project that creates low-income housing Chicago and San Francisco. Conquering grave even a college degree, Gardner applied for and opportunities for employment in the challenges to become a successful training programs at brokerages, willing to live notoriously poor Tenderloin area of the city. entrepreneur, Gardner is an avid motivational on next to nothing while he learned a new and inspirational speaker, addressing the keys trade. Chris Jr.’s mother left and Gardner, Gardner has also been honored by the NAACP to overcoming obstacles and breaking cycles. despite his circumstances, fought to keep his Image Awards with awards for both the book Gardner is also a passionate philanthropist son because, as he says, “I made up my mind and movie versions of The Pursuit of whose work has been recognized by many as a young kid that when I had children they Happyness; Los Angeles Commission on esteemed organizations. were going to know who their father is and that Assaults Against Women’s (LACAAW) 2006 he isn’t going anywhere.” Humanitarian Award; The Continental Africa The amazing story of Gardner’s life was Chamber of Commerce’s 2006 Friends of published as an autobiography, The Pursuit of Gardner earned a spot in the Dean Witter Africa Award; The Glaucoma Foundation’s Kitty Happyness, (Amistad/Harper Collins) in May Reynolds training program but became Carlisle Hart Lifetime Achievement Award; The 2006 and became a New York Times and homeless when he could not make ends meet Securities Industry and Financial Markets Washington Post #1 best-seller. In paperback, on his meager trainee salary. Today, Gardner is Association (SIFMA); Covenant House, the book spent over 20 weeks on the New York involved with homelessness initiatives assisting Common Ground and other organizations Times best-seller list and has been translated families to stay intact and assisting homeless committed to combating violence against into 14 languages. Gardner was also the men and women who are employed but still women, homelessness, financial illiteracy and inspiration for the movie The Pursuit of cannot get by. It is estimated that 12% of the vision diseases – all issues of the utmost Happyness, released by Columbia Pictures in homeless population in the United States is importance to Gardner. December 2006. The movie is the #2 all-time employed; in some communities that estimate domestic grossing dramatic film. Will Smith is as high as 30%. Chris Gardner’s aim, through his speaking starred as Gardner and received Academy engagements and media projects, is to help Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Gardner worked at Bear Stearns & Co from others achieve their full potential. His practical nominations for his performance. Gardner was 1983-1987 where he became a top earner. In guidance and inspirational story have made an associate producer on the film. His newest 1987 he founded the brokerage firm Gardner him a frequent guest on CNN, CNBC and the book, Start Where You Are: Life Lessons in Rich in Chicago from his home with just Fox News Channel. He has been featured on Getting from Where You Are to Where You $10,000. Gardner Rich LLC is an institutional the CBS Evening News, 20/20, Oprah, Today Want to Be was released in May 2009. brokerage firm specializing in the execution of Show, The View, Entertainment Tonight, as debt, equity and derivative products well as in People, USA Today, Associated Born February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, transactions for some of the nations largest Press, New York Times, Fortune, Entrepreneur, Wisconsin, Christopher Paul Gardner’s institutions, public pension plans and unions. Jet, Reader’s Digest, Trader Monthly, Chicago childhood was marked by poverty, domestic Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, the New violence, alcoholism, sexual abuse and family York Post and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, amongst others.
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Friday Conference Workshops 202 (PARKS) 401 (REC) 2:45 pm - 4:45 pm Building Better Recreation Spaces Wii Issues and Applications in a All conference workshops award 0.2 CEUs, Using Natural Resources Public Recreation Setting pending approval. Presenters(s): Carl Peterson, Senior Vice Presenters(s): Mike Lukkarinen and Paul President, Environmental Consultants; Tod Schlag, Assistant Professors, Western Illinois 104 (IAPD) Stanton, Landscape Architect, Design University Perspectives, Inc. Chair: Dan Yoder, Western Illinois University Working Together: Maximizing Board Chair: Rob Sperl, Wheaton Park District This workshop will include a demonstration Effectiveness Many parks are still designed using discussion on issues associated with Wii Presenters(s): Roy Ellis Moody, Owner, Roy traditional landscape design approaches. games. Speakers will address how to Moody and Associates This workshop will illustrate the benefits of incorporate technology into your recreational Chair: Mickey Macholl, Hanover Park Park understanding and using natural resources programs and have them be successful. District in the design, construction and park Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) This highly interactive workshop will assist maintenance of recreation spaces. learn how to incorporate new technologies board members and staff to develop Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) into their programs; (2) discuss the issues collaborative working relationships that get learn how using natural resources in designs associated with using the Wii in their results. Participants will learn the and maintenance can improve recreation recreation programs. leadership, communication and team spaces; (2) learn how natural resources can building skills and processes necessary to be incorporated into park designs. 418 (REC) function at a high level of accomplishment Easing the Teasing at Camp on a board. 315 (AF) Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) be Presenters(s): Judy Freedman, Licensed able to identify communication strategies The Glass Ceiling: The Next Clinical Social Worker and Author necessary to be productive board members; Generation Chair: Sabrina Henkins, Gurnee Park District (2) be able to apply team building ideas that Presenters(s): Panel of Experts Campers should be having fun with each create a sense of board cooperation and Chair: Laura Barron, Oakbrook Terrace Park other rather than making fun of each other. collaboration. District Counselors can be extremely instrumental in The good news is women continue to rise to raising campers’ awareness about teasing 119 (IAPD) directorships in many park and recreation and reducing these hurtful behaviors. This workshop will empower participants with Parliamentary agencies. But, has their rise to the top been easier than for the women who came before tools, tips and practical advice to handle Procedure and them? What challenges have these female teasing. Easing the Teasing will enhance Robert’s Rules directors faced in their rise to the top? Are kids’ fun at camp as well as their self Presenters(s): Nancy there fewer barriers to being a female park esteem. Sylvester, Professional and recreation executive today? Join our Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Parliamentarian, panel for a lively, interactive discussion on learn the differences between teasing and Sylvester Enterprises, Inc. the diverse career paths they took and learn bullying; (2) discover when, where and why Chair: Mary Ann their tips for achieving professional and kids tease at camp, the reactions and effects Chambers, Northbrook personal success and balance. of teasing and strategies campers can Park District Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) implement when teased; (3) learn Parliamentary Procedure explore the varied career paths that interventions in teasing situations and the and Robert’s Rules made successful females have taken to advance in importance of activating bystanding campers easy and fun! If you are a board member the field of parks and recreation; (2) discuss to stand up and speak out. who has ever had something important to some of the barriers that female park and say at their monthly board meeting only to recreation professionals face in their careers, be drowned out by others who know how to including achieving life balance, competition take control of the meeting or were just for directorships with professionals from the louder - you need to attend this workshop. private sector and much more. Nancy Sylvester has been a practicing professional parliamentarian since 1980. This workshop will cover the aspects of Parliamentary Procedure and Robert’s Rules that will help you keep your meetings effective and efficient. Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) have a clear understanding of quorum, agenda, processing a motion, precedence of motions, meaning of votes and script of a motion; (2) understand the special rules for a small board and basic characteristics of a motion.
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504 (TR) 530 (TR) 622 (FM) Interviewing Basics So All the Programs You Wish Dealing With a Park Development You Get the Job! You Could Run Plan in Relation to Your Municipality Presenters(s): Sandy Chevalier, Presenters(s): Karla Krones, Manager of Presenters(s): Derke Price, Attorney, Ancel Superintendent of Recreation, Tinley Park Inclusion, NSSRA; Todd Mallo, Glink Diamond Bush DiCianni & Krafthefer Park District; Donna McCauley, Professor of Superintendent, Oak Lawn Special Chair: Scott McClaskey, Round Lake Area Recreation Management and Recreation Recreation; Michael McNicholas, Director, Park District Therapy; Kelly Rajzer, Director of Parks and Special Recreation Services This workshop is a must for those who want Recreation, Village of Romeoville Chair: Kathy Ochromowicz, Tri County to learn the tips and tricks for getting your Chair: Anne Cosentino, SEASPAR Special Recreation Association next park development through the This workshop will cover the basics of Cooperative events have become a staple in municipal land use process. Understanding interviewing. Preparatory steps will be parks and recreation and drawn resources the municipal requirements will keep your covered so you feel confident going into any and attention to services we provide. We will project on track and on schedule. interview for any job and walk out among seek to take the "next step" in exploring new Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) the finalists. How to handle hard questions recreation opportunities and cooperative learn the municipal process of how to and present your best self during the ideas that will help develop programs submit your park development process to interview will also be covered. without borders. keep on track and on time; (2) identify the Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) necessary steps, committees and understand the important steps to take to be generate and calendar events and requirements needed to complete your park prepared for any interview; (2) know how to opportunities that are unique and at times development project. conduct themselves in the interview in order difficult to garner interest in when initially to get the job. offered; (2) be presented with ideas and 1005 (EMS) network with other professionals to develop The Ups and Downs of Programming 510 (TR) cooperative programs and explore new partnership concepts. for a Diverse Community D.S.L.: Dance, Sing, Learn Presenters(s): Lula Hermosillo, Outreach Presenters(s): Carole Peterson, Children’s 611 (FM) Coordinator and Erin Lynch, Superintendent, Music and Movement Specialist and CEO, Southwest Special Recreation Association; Macaroni Soup! Community Centers: Building New Tom Suhs, Director, Summit Park District Chair: Breane Cory, Rockford Park District vs. Renovations Chair: Lori Chesna, Southwest Special As recreation’s benefits are endless, so are Presenters(s): Tom LaLonde, Principal, Recreation Association music’s! Learn classroom management Williams Architects; Thomas Tristano, The presenters of this workshop realized, techniques that really work with highly President, Williams Construction after attending a session at conference, that active songs, plus an easy-to-use music time Management their programs did not meet the needs of planner, even if you’re musically challenged! Chair: Holly Gardels, St. Charles Park residents from diverse backgrounds. This In recreation we use music in a variety of District workshop will describe the trials and facets, but let’s do it with more purpose! This workshop will cover the positives and tribulations… what had to be done… Current brain and physical development negatives in determining whether a “thinking outside the box” to enter a research supports the need for frequent community center can be renovated to community of which they knew nothing. musical exposure for young children. As we accommodate the growing needs of park They experienced many hurdles including learn best by doing, be prepared to move! district residents or if building a new getting staff and the board to buy in to the Teach with enthusiasm and they will learn community center is necessary to process, hiring the right people, deciding with enthusiasm! accomplish the community’s goals. Funding whether to print in two languages, changing Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) issues, site requirements, phased programming and, ultimately, accepting that learn how music assists in the brain and construction and gathering community input they couldn’t make a culture fit into what physical development of children; (2) learn will also be discussed. they did; they had to fit into their culture. songs, techniques and resources to Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) implement in classes or programs. leave the presentation with a clearer identify how to think outside the box when understanding of what the renovation of a programming for a diverse community; (2) community center entails as well as have a identify the process to gain support from better grasp of the process involved in your staff and board; (3) learn tips on how deciding to construct a new community to learn about the culture, how to get the center; (2) be better equipped to work with word out and how to break through the their boards and residents to determine language and culture barriers. whether they can renovate their existing community center to meet residents’ needs or if it is time for a new community center.
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SATURDAY CONFERENCE SESSIONS Saturday Conference Workshops 10:15 am - 12:15 pm All conference workshops award 0.2 CEUs, pending approval. 10:30 am - 11:45 am 17 You Only Get One Chance to Make a 317 Getting the Job Offer: You’re Hired! 16 (IPRA) First Impression 408 RU Communic8N w/Teens? Universal Design: New Heights for 113 How to Avoid “High Noon” with 412 Early Childhood Forum People of All Abilities Proper Board Practices and 422 Giving Back: Constructing and Presenters(s): Diane Mathis, Director of Procedures Part I Maintaining Strong Volunteer Marketing and Development, Springfield 127 Keeping Your Parks Safe From Gangs Programs Park District; Mark Trieglaff, President, 133 How to Win the Unwinable Case 425 Day Camp Open Forum Accessibility Consultation and Training; Alice 209 Integrating Water Quality Measures in 508 Activity to Activity Transitions: Fun Voigt, Accessibility Specialist, National Parks and Easy Ways to be Effective Center for Accessibility 211 The Nuts and Bolts of a Community 606 How to Run a Successful Open Chair: Sandy Gbur, WSSRA Playground Build House Public parks are places for families to enjoy 219 Ecological Park Master Planning: 626 Planning Today for the Aquatic Living History in Joliet’s Pilcher Park together and for citizens to gather as a Facility of the Future: Keeping Your 303 Pricing Products, Programs and community. But, given the aging population Finger on the Pulse of the Aquatic Services for Maximum Profit and disabled veterans and a growing number of Industry Resale children with disabilities, few parks allow 901 Photography and The Law 305 Personnel Law: Myth Busters Explain universal access and disabled family 905 Digital Photography for Beginners the Facts versus Fiction members and citizens are left out of the 403 Are You “Nuts” About Food Allergies recreational opportunity. Several parks in 410 2,4,6,8 Program Marketing You Can Illinois have employed the concept of Appreciate! 2:00 pm - 3:15 pm Universal Design in building parks that are 419 Getting Involved: Why You Should 107 Ask the Commissioner enjoyed by everyone of any ability. These Get Involved in the RECREATION 212 Promoting Native Landscaping: public parks have opened up recreational Section Barriers and Motivation 423 Before and After School Open Forum opportunities for everyone and every 215 Eco-Maintenance: Sustaining the member of the family, no matter their ability. 429 What Should We Be Charging for Sustainable Landscape Food at Special Events and Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) be 306 How Do I Pay Them? Wage and Hour provided a detailed understanding of Concession Stands? Law Question and Answers 507 Visual Aids for All Kids Universal Design - what are the design 318 Intergovernmental Pooling of 607 Unique In-Service Ideas principals and what a universally designed Investments 902 Integrated Marketing Across, park looks like; (2) learn how universally Up/Down and Around Your Agency: 405 Teen Camps designed parks can build a sense of An Overview of the Bloomingdale 411 Coaches Training community and the local economy. Park District’s Journey to Reposition 413 One World: Respecting Cultural Itself for the Future Diversity in our Programs 424 Behavior Management: Discipline 106 (IAPD) and Developing a Plan to Implement Winning With Teamwork 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm 621 Movin’ on Up! How to Prepare to be Presenters(s): Roy Ellis Moody, Owner, Roy 18 Alzheimer’s: An Emerging Issue for a Superintendent Moody and Associates Park and Recreation Professionals 623 Synthetic Turf: Increase Your Chair: Lori Noonan, Bloomingdale Park 108 Reach for the Stars! A Performing Programming Capabilities District Arts Model 906 Community Partnerships/ A key organizational reality is that to be 114 How to Avoid “High Noon” with Intergovernmental Relationships successful you have to work at least part of Proper Board Practices and the time in collaborative effort. Good Procedures Part II teamwork and being an effective team player 130 Developing Small Community is a necessary requirement for success in Projects ALL CONFERENCE SESSIONS AWARD 0.1 today’s environment. In an engaging and 206 Hybrid Vehicles/Equipment CEUs, PENDING APPROVAL. humorous style, this workshop will teach 210 Converting Turfgrass Lawns to Native DESCRIPTIONS OF THESE SESSIONS WILL ways to create high performing teams with Prairie Landscapes APPEAR IN THE CONFERENCE GUIDE IN energy and passion. 310 Financial Management in a Tough THE JANUARY/FEBRUARY ISSUE OF Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Economy ILLINOIS PARKS AND RECREATION. identify concepts for effective communication and teamwork; (2) learn to assess productive and counterproductive team behaviors.
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117 (IAPD) friends groups have in common? They are all 312 (AF) Aligning Organizational Strategies resources for park and recreation agencies to Understanding Family-Friendly with Community Needs seek out for creating partnerships to Employee Benefit Programs in Parks Presenters(s): Barbara Heller, Principal enhance what they do. Through a series of and Recreation case study presentations, learn how Consultant, PROS Consulting; Ronald A. Presenters(s): Michael Mulvaney, Assistant collaborating with both traditional and non- Vine, Vice President/President, Leisure Professor, Eastern Illinois University traditional partners can dramatically Services/ETC Institute Chair: Nancy Aldrich, Arlington Heights Park strengthen and expand your services and Chair: Lori Noonan, Bloomingdale Park District stature in the community. District Changes in family structures have led to a Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) The future direction of an agency should be dramatic demographic shift in the workplace understand the need for and the benefits framed around community needs. One of the and, as a result, family-friendly benefit that can be achieved by forming most vital elements of organizational programs are becoming more widely offered partnerships in the community; (2) learn performance for senior leaders and board by public recreation agencies. In this proven techniques in developing successful members is their ability to chart the course workshop, Professor Michael Mulvaney will partnership agreements. for future direction, based on resident needs. summarize recent research on this topic and This workshop explores the process involved share important insights into how family- in the use of qualitative and quantitative 131 (IAPD) friendly benefits can positively impact customer data to build organizational Strong Board and Director Teams: employees’ overall job satisfaction, strategy. In the market for a referendum, What Does it Take? motivation and organizational commitment. new park or facility or just embarking on a Presenters(s): Beth Michaels, Lead Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) strategic planning effort? Then, this Consultant and Dale Primer, President, understand how the adoption of family- workshop will help you with the tools you Primer, Michaels & Associates friendly benefits lead to greater employee need for success. Chair: Mike Rylko, Buffalo Grove Park engagement, commitment and better job Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) District performance; (2) discuss why the field of explore various methods of community input What does it take to create an even higher parks and recreation should be a front in order to determine needs priorities; (2) performing district board and director team? runner in the promotion and enhancement of discuss connecting resident input with Nothing is more painful for the family-friendly work environments for their strategy development. board/director team than the sense of being professionals. stuck: knowing the team is without a shared 123 (IAPD) understanding of roles and responsibilities, 402 (REC) Brownfields Redevelopment evidenced by a lack of trust and feelings of Why Didn’t My Program Run? Presenters(s): Steve Colantino, Brownfields general dissatisfaction. What does it take to Effective Programming create a positive leadership agreement Manager, Illinois Environmental Protection Presenters(s): Barbara Heller, Principal among board members and the director? Agency; Bola Delano, Director, Economic Consultant and Neelay Bhatt, Consultant, What have high performance leadership and Community Development, Chicago PROS Consulting teams found that works for them? And, what Metropolitan Agency for Planning; Deborah Chair: Sarah Stefan, Village of Algonquin can you bring back to your team? Orr, Brownfields Coordinator, US Did the marketing materials not go out? Did Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Environmental Protection Agency I publish the wrong date on everything? Get identify one to three leadership elements Chair: Chris Gentes, Round Lake Area Park the answers to why your program may not that, if attended to, would strengthen their District be running from the professionals at PROS team’s performance; (2) leave with a The Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Consulting, a management consulting firm practical understanding of how to overcome Planning (CMAP), USEPA, Region 5 and for park and recreation agencies. Together the most common issues that stand in the Illinois EPA have launched a partnership we will explore the many reasons why some way of many board and director teams. which focuses on Brownfields programs aren’t effective, what elements are redevelopment and the link with local and necessary to lead a successful regional planning. 208 (PARKS) program/event and the new trends in Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Live Well, Live Green recreation programming. Get progressive learn the crucial role planning has in Presenters(s): Daniel Atilano, Principal, PSA results with optimized solutions for your redeveloping brownfields sites; (2) learn Dewberry/Burnidge, Cassell & Associates, ineffective programs. There will be a short about the federal grant program, state Inc.; Joe Modrich, Director of Parks and question and answer session with the technical assistance and other resources Recreation, Park District of Franklin Park speakers of this session. available to local governments that want to Chair: Ed Reidy, Bloomingdale Park District Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) improve the quality of life in their Learn more ways to make our world a examine successful programs and the community. greener and healthier place. We’ll discuss fundamentals to planning an effective how the Industrial Revolution got us here program; (2) identify key reasons for why 128 (IAPD) and how the Green Revolution can get us programs are not thriving in your Partnerships for Success out. community; (3) tackle their own Presenters(s): Panel of Experts Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) unsuccessful programming and develop Chair: Mike Brann, Plainfield Park District learn where to start on their next “green” concrete steps for improving the offerings to What do school districts, municipalities, fire capital improvement project; (2) learn 15 their community. protection districts, private businesses and ways they can make a difference in global warming.
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617 (FM) Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Saturday Conference Increasing Profits: What I Learned better understand the importance of the Workshops from Managing Eight Concession customer service they provide internally and 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Operations externally and will learn ways to build personal relationships within their group All conference workshops award 0.2 CEUs, Presenters(s): Mike Holtzman, President, fitness programs; (2) will learn to improve pending approval. Profitable Food Facilities their staff’s performance and program Chair: Karen Spandikow, Oak Brook Park through educating, empowering, motivating, 116 (IAPD) District evaluating and celebrating. Running concessions is never easy. Everyone Where Did the Money Go? is a food critic, the business is unpredictable Presenters(s): David Phillips, Senior Vice (sometimes we’re busy, other times we’re 802 (STUDENT) President, Speer Financial; Robert Porter, slow) and with the weather in Illinois, this It’s Up to You Director of Special Projects and Adam makes managing the business even harder. Presenters(s): Tom Bower, Superintendent of Simon, Attorney, Ancel Glink Diamond Bush We will discuss what we have done Recreation, Winfield Park District; Wendy DiCianni & Krafthefer managing our eight concession operations. Craven, Manager of Support Services, Chair: Bob Schmidt, Schaumburg Park What menus do we offer? What doesn’t WDSRA District work? What is the best POS system? What Chair: Lee Ann Fisk, Homewood-Flossmoor This workshop is intended to provide a clear are the secrets to increasing profits during Park District understanding on how the different financial this difficult economy? These and many You hold the key to your success! It’s true! ordinances, procedures and reports all work other items will be discussed. You have the power to impress or to in cycle to provide fiscal control, Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) disappoint. You have the control over accountability and mission planning plus learn to minimize costs and maximize profit choices and actions in life. You have the information on bonds and interest. potential without affecting the experience of option to perform to your fullest. Take some Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) the user; (2) analyze sales and margins in a time to reflect on you and polish the learn how the levy, Truth in Taxation and the food and beverage environment; (3) evaluate professional image that supervisors are Tax Cap all blend together with new laws; current food and beverage operations from looking for. (2) learn tips and tricks in board procedures the perspective of the user; (4) be able to Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) and practices for smooth operations; how interact with an outsourced food and learn helpful tips and suggestions to further bonds and interest work with the financial beverage entity on an equal level. educate and improve upon necessary skills process. and essential professional components to 620 (FM) increase future employment opportunities; 122 (IAPD) Managing the Madness: How to (2) walk away with tools to practice and use Community Building Through a in the real world. Effectively Manage, Train, Evaluate Referendum and Retain Challenging Fitness Staff Presenters(s): Panel of Experts Presenters(s): Kristin Fischer, Coordinator of Chair: Jerri-Lynn Kleina, Alsip Park District Fitness, Illinois State University; LoriKay Thinking new capital and/or operational Paden, Education and Community Services revenues are needed to expand properties or Coordinator, University of Illinois facilities and then maintain them? Chair: AJ Collier, Bartlett Park District Wondering what the community expects of Group fitness is one of the most valuable the agency and how much they want to pay services we offer because we have the for what they want? This workshop will opportunity to instill the worth of our club in provide practical and strategic ideas on several members at once. Managing the conducting a community conversation and needs of our instructors while ensuring that the legal issues of conducting a referendum. our participants’ needs and desires are met Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) can be a challenge. This workshop will acquire a working knowledge and explore outline specific steps that managers can the legal, practical and strategic issues take in order to better manage their involved with putting together a successful programs by focusing on the personalized referendum; (2) learn best practices from a results-driven relationship between panel of experts on how to engage your instructors and participants. This diverse community in determining the scope and group of staff members are challenging to content of a referendum, get community keep motivated, focused and working toward backing and be successful with your one goal - pleasing the customer. This referendum. workshop will provide those needed tools and tricks of the trade.
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126 (IAPD) 218 (PARKS) Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) Foundations and Fundraising: Chicago Wilderness Green learn when, why and how to successfully Beyond the Basics, Tips and Infrastructure Vision: Strategies for obtain valid information through the Strategies on How to Energize Your Land Acquisition and Park Design development and facilitation of focus groups and advisory groups; (2) learn why, when Fundraising Efforts That Protect the Environment, Save and how to properly create, collect and Presenters(s): Elaine Harrington, Deputy Money and Reconnect Children and analyze community surveys and report their Director, Fund Development/Executive Families with Nature findings. Director of Foundation, Rockford Park Presenters(s): Dennis Dreher, Director of District/Foundation Conservation Design, Cowhey Gudmundson Chair: Don Andersen, Oak Lawn Park 505 (TR) Leder, Ltd., John Rogner, Supervisor, Teaching Play Skills with Board District Chicago Ecological Services Field Office and From recreating your mission statement, to Chair, Chicago Wilderness; Nancy Games to Children with Autism reformulating your board to conducting a Williamson, Trustee, McHenry County Presenter(s): Mary Crissman, B.S., Senior development audit, there are many avenues Conservation District Autism Consultant/Trainer, Little Friends to take to make the most of your foundation. Chair: Elizabeth Kessler, McHenry County Center for Autism The Rockford Park District has 30 years Conservation District Chair: Breane Cory, Rockford Park District experience and has built a highly successful This workshop will provide an overview of Play is an important part of each person’s organization, including completion of a $9.1 Chicago Wilderness’ Green Infrastructure life. It teaches us the social skills of waiting million capital campaign in early 2009 Vision as a framework for park districts to and turn taking, winning and losing, and (despite the economy... ). strategically protect critical natural areas, engaging with others. Play may be counting. Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) implement sustainable/green infrastructure Through play, language skills such as simple gain information from a successful designs for landscapes and facilities and scripts and verbal labeling can be taught organization about roles and relationships reconnect children and families with nature. and reinforced. We may learn competitive between the district and the foundation that Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) strategies. There are many great board help to keep everyone headed in the right obtain a working knowledge of conservation games that you would love to teach children direction together; (2) learn tips and design and related LEED principles for new and young adults but the games may seem strategies for increasing your number of and retrofitted facilities and landscapes; (2) to be beyond their skills. donors and their levels of participation. learn how to develop and deploy innovative, Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) reduced cost strategies for partnership with learn how to break down and adapt board 132 (IAPD) local governments, adjacent park and forest games to meet the individual needs as well Good to Great for the Social Sector preserve districts and developers to protect as how to advance the adaptations as the learner’s skills improve in order to develop Presenters(s): Beth Michaels, Lead and restore sensitive natural areas and the learner’s communicative, social and Consultant and Dale Primer, President, provide nature-based greenways and trail cognitive skills; (2) learn how to teach play Primer, Michaels connections. skills through the use of board games to Chair: Mike Rylko, Buffalo Grove Park children with Autism Spectrum Disorders as District 316 (AF) well as determining which games are within Every leader has an impression of their Ask Me Why? Managing, the learner’s skill level. agency’s performance and issues. Here is an Programming and Providing Services opportunity for agency leaders and board members to gain further understanding of Takes More Than KNOW-HOW: their strengths and growth opportunities Learn How to KNOW! from a renowned benchmarking diagnostic. Presenters(s): LoriKay Paden, Community Jim Collins and Jerry Porras researched and Education and Service Coordinator and Dr. published the characteristics of highly Laura Payne, Associate Professor, University successful organizations in their famous of Illinois book Good to Great. Jim Collins has taken Chair: Cindy Capek, DeKalb Park District the research to government and nonprofit It is our job to offer high quality programs, entities. During this workshop you will services, facilities and staff! Often as complete the “Good to Great for the Social directors, managers and supervisors we do Sector” diagnostic and interpret the results. what “we know.” The only way to really Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) identify the best for your agency is through gain an understanding of the core developing valid focus groups, community characteristics that great social sector assessments and/or advisory groups. Are you organizations share; (2) identify specific really providing what your community areas for further development. wants/needs in the most efficient manner? Learn how to create and use tools and outsourcing these valuable services and more!
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511 (TR) What Do We Know About Our NET Generation: Part 2
Presenters(s): Sandy Chevalier, Superintendent of Recreation, Tinley Park Park District; Donna s i s McCauley, Professor of Recreation Management and Recreation Therapy; Colleen O’Connell, o n i l t l
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implement a simple awareness program and activities that not only win you statewide recognition, but more importantly give you a stellar staff that is healthier from the inside out! Don’t miss this high-energy, practical workshop! o Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) learn the value of incorporating wellness awareness into employee training and the workday with the six dimensions of wellness: physical, social, t
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Making the most out of a revenue facility is hard work. This workshop will teach you tips and tricks 0 for bringing together vendors, patrons and guests so that your revenue facility can make the most of r e the amenities it offers. Pulling the “Four Corners” revenue plan from the private sector will make a f your public facility a revenue generator. n
Learning Outcomes: Participants will: (1) learn how to apply the “Four Corners” of the private o sector revenue facility to the park and recreation sector so they can increase revenue and profits of o their own revenue facility; (2) learn tips and tricks for marketing the amenities of their facility to the c general public and business sectors. S 2
40 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.ILparksconference.com S ATURDAY EVENING SOCIAL Jim Gossett Saturday, January 30 Hilton Chicago, International Ballroom 6:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Imagine George W. Bush, David Letterman, John Kerry, Larry King, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Brokaw, Randy Travis, Johnny Carson, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Willie Nelson, Ted Koppel, Andy Rooney, Jesse Jackson, Jay Leno, Keith Jackson and a host of others performing for you! When Jim Gossett hits center stage, you never know who will turn up!
While other comedians recycle “stock” jokes, Jim Gossett takes his inspiration from the events of the day, adds his special brand of magic, and delivers a performance so up- to-the-minute, it’s no wonder his material often appears in the monologues of The Tonight Show and The Late Show with David Letterman. His unique perspective on the news will captivate you!
No stranger to the concert stage, Jim Gossett has opened 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm for such celebrities as Paul Anka, Barbara Mandrell, Jay Dinner and Drinks Leno, Crystal Gayle, Louise Mandrell and Frankie Valli. He also appears regularly in comedy clubs and college 8:45 pm – 10:30 pm campuses across the country, earning him a substantial following. When not performing, he can be heard on a Jim Gossett (with a 15-minute variety of national and regional commercials for Pizza Hut, intermission) Ford Trucks, McDonald’s, GMC, Kroger, and Wendy’s. He is also a featured announcer on the Cartoon Network and provides humorous commentary on several national radio Delegates who register for the Full Conference talk shows. Package will receive one ticket for admission. Extra adult tickets may be purchased through the Due to the nature of the evening’s pre-registration process or onsite for $85 entertainment, this is an adult-only event. HOUSING FORM
CONFERENCE DATES: Thursday, January 28 – Saturday, January 30, 2010 LOCATIONS: The Hilton Chicago hotel is a landmark downtown pet-friendly property located on the “Cultural Michigan Avenue Mile” and features 1,544 richly appointed guest rooms, full-service business center, fitness facilities (usage fee), indoor pool and diverse dining options. Additional housing is available at the Palmer House Hilton hotel where guests enjoy the close proximity to the Art Institute of Chicago, Grant Park, Millennium Park and Navy Pier and are treated to modern conveniences combined with over one hundred years of elegance. ! Shuttle service is available departing from the Palmer House Hilton from the Wabash Street entrance on the hour and half hour. ! Shuttle service is available departing from the Hilton Chicago from the 8th Street entrance on the quarter and three quarter hour.
Please complete the following information and mail, call* or fax as soon as possible. You may also make your reservation online.
Hilton Chicago, Attention: Reservations Department Palmer House, Attention: Reservations Department 720 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60605 17 E. Monroe St., Chicago, IL 60603 P: 877-865-5320; F: 312-663-6528 P: 877-865-5321; F: 312-332-3619 Go to www.ilparksconference.com and click on the Registration Go to www.ilparksconference.com and click on the Registration and Hotel information link. and Hotel information link.
*When calling to make your reservation, be sure to indicate you are attending the IAPD/IPRA Conference and mention the group code APD to ensure you receive the discounted room rate.
NOTE: One night’s deposit is due with your reservation. This is nonrefundable after December 18, 2009. CUT-OFF DATE: January 5, 2010. Reservations made after this date may pay a higher hotel rate and are subject to availability.
Check one: Hilton Chicago Palmer House Guest Name: 1 Single Occupancy $114 $114 1 Double Occupancy $114 $114 1 Triple Occupancy $134 $134 Sharing With: 1 Quadruple Occupancy $144 $144 Company/Home Address: *NOTE: The above rates do not include appropriate state and local tax, currently 15.4%. City: State: Zip: Arrival Day/Date: Phone:
E-mail: Fax: (Check in time is 3:00 p.m.) Departure Day/Date: Hilton Honors # (if applicable):
A.D.A. Special Request: (Check out time is 11:00 a.m.)
! Reservations must be accompanied by one (1) night’s advance deposit using check or credit card. ! Reservations are first-come, first-served. ! Room deposits are refundable if cancellation is made by December 18, 2009. By the decision of the IAPD/IPRA Joint Conference Committee, there will be no room deposits refunded after December 18, 2009. ! When canceling any room, request a cancellation number and the name of the reservation person giving you that number.
Indicate one of the following: 1 Type of Credit Card Credit Card Holder Name Credit Card Number Expiration Date Signature
1 First Night Deposit Enclosed Cut-off date for making sleeping room reservations: January 5, 2010.
SUITES: IAPD member agencies or IPRA members interested in reserving a suite must contact Dina Kartch of IPRA first at 630-376-1911 x200. Forty-eight hours after IPRA has given approval, you must contact the Hilton Chicago or the Palmer House directly. Exhibitors interested in reserving a suite must contact Sue Triphahn of IAPD first at 847-496-4449. Forty-eight hours after IAPD has given approval, you must contact the Hilton Chicago or the Palmer House directly.
*When calling to make your reservation, be sure to indicate you are attending the IAPD/IPRA Conference and mention the group code APD to ensure you receive the discounted room rate.
In order to prevent reservation duplication, do not send in this form if reservations have been made by phone or online.
42 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.ILparksconference.com PROFESSIONAL CONNECTION
Thursday, January 28, 2010 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Location: Continental A Ballroom
Students and professionals join us before the socials begin and get a head start on your networking weekend!
Students, you won't want to miss this great Professionals, you were a student at one opportunity to network with professionals in time with quite a few questions. These the field. A relaxed, social atmosphere will students are the future professionals in the provide an informal setting to inquire and talk field, and you can help by sharing your with professionals in your area of interest. knowledge and experience.
Everyone who attends will enjoy pizza and beverages. Students, get there to fill out your free raffle ticket for great prizes!
Simply complete this form and mail or fax a copy to: Wendy Craven WDSRA 116 N. Schmale Rd., Carol Stream, IL 60188 630-681-0962/630-681-1262 (Fax) [email protected]
1 Student 1 Professional
Name
College or Organization
Day Phone Number E-Mail
Students: Indicate area of interest. Professionals: Indicate area in which you work. 1 Administration 1 Golf 1 Special Events 1 Adult Programming 1 Maintenance 1 Technology 1 Aquatics 1 Marketing/Communications 1 Teens 1 Athletics 1 Parks/Natural Resources 1 Therapeutic Recreation 1 Building/Parks 1 Preschool/Tots 1 Trips 1 Facilities 1 Public Relations 1 Youth 1 Finance 1 Recreation Programs 1 Other 1 Fitness 1 Seniors
www.ILparksconference.com September/October 2009 43 REGISTRATION FORM REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS JANUARY 1, 2010
Register online at www.ilparksconference.com for a $25 per registration discount! Registration for conference and any pre-conference workshops must be done at the same time. Faxed or mailed registration forms will be accepted until December 11, 2009. After December 11, 2009 registrations will only be accepted online at www.ilparksconference.com. EARLY (BY 12/11/09) REGULAR (12/12/09-1/1/10) ONSITE PACKAGE MEMBER NON-MEMBER MEMBER NON-MEMBER MEMBER ONMEMBER Full o $305 o $560 o $370 o $690 o $390 o $730 No Frills o $250 o $460 o $305 o $560 o $340 o $630 Friday Only o $215 o $380 o $245 o $440 o $250 o $450 Saturday Only o $215 o $380 o $245 o $440 o $250 o $450 Student o $100 o $135 o $105 o $140 o $110 o $145 Retiree o $125 o $125 o $135 o $135 o $145 o $145 Guest/Spouse o $125 o $125 o $135 o $135 o $145 o $145 Friday All-Conference Awards Luncheon Ticket o $55 Table Reservation for Friday All-Conference Awards Luncheon (Nonrefundable; must have 10 people; see page 23 for details.) o $50 Saturday Breakfast in Exhibit Hall o $40 Saturday Social Ticket - Adult o $85
CONFERENCE PACKAGE/TICKET TOTAL $
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS - THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2010 (Workshop enrollment is limited - REGISTER EARLY!) SESSION # TITLE FEE CEUs 8:30 AM - 12:00 PM 11 Fund Raising or Interest Raising? Finding New Revenue Streams While Developing a Major Gift Culture in Your Agency o $75 o $5 101 Managing Your Customer Service Delivery o $75 o $5 302 Leadership and Coaching for Maximum Performance and Productivity o $65 o $5 426 Achieving the Impossible: Selling More Programs and Spending Less in Advertising and Marketing o $75 o $5 501 How to Have a World Class Staff Training: Outstanding Methods and Activities o $70 o $5 603 Effective Security and Emergency Preparedness o $75 o $5 908 Wired Writing Workshop: How to Write for Screens, Spiders, Networks and People! o $70 o $5 1004 Programming for Latino Residents o $75 o $5 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Office Support Workshop (Fee includes lunch, workshop and materials) o $89 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM 12 Supervisory Benchmark Checks for Successful Management of Interns o $75 o $5 102 Tackling Problems and Conflicts o $75 o $5 301 Brand You: Personal Branding for Success in Your Professional and Personal Lives o $65 o $5 415 What’s Your IQ (Inclusion Quotient)? o $75 o $5 427 The 800-Pound Gorilla of Sales: How to Become the Most Dominant Player in Your Market o $75 o $5 502 The Superb Camp Director’s Master Toolbox: How to Lead Camp to the Best Session Ever o $70 o $5 602 Personal Goal Setting o $75 o $5 915 Real-ize Your Virtual Brand: New Age Marketing/PR for Park Districts o $70 o $5 PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOP TOTAL $
MEMBER RATES: All registrations are checked for membership status. Refer to the Policy on Members and Non-Members on page 22. MEMBER: o IAPD o IPRA ID#______oo NON-MEMBER PPRP o APRP o CPRP o CTRS o I WANT CEUs FOR: (No additional CEU fees will be charged.) o FRIDAY o SATURDAY oFRIDAY AND SATURDAY
NAME TITLE
NICKNAME FOR BADGE GUEST/SPOUSE
AGENCY EMAIL ADDRESS PHONE
MAILING ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP ADA COMPLIANCE: PLEASE CONTACT DINA AT IPRA AT 630-376-1911 (BY DECEMBER 11, 2009) IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIAL ACCESSIBILITY/MEAL REQUIREMENTS.
METHOD OF PAYMENT * Should you make an error in calculating, your card will be charged for the correct amount.
o Check #______(Please make checks payable to IAPD) oo Visa MasterCard Total $______Cardholder’s Name______Credit Card Number______Expiration Date______Cardholder’s Address______Zip Code______3-Digit Security Code______Signature______
FAXED OR MAILED REGISTRATION FORMS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL DECEMBER 11, 2009 AT: 2010 IAPD/IPRA CONFERENCE PO BOX 783, Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-0783 FAX: 847-759-6958 AFTER DECEMBER 11, 2009 REGISTRATIONS WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED ONLINE AT WWW.ILPARKSCONFERENCE.COM.
44 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.ILparksconference.com IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION
REGISTRATION FOR CONFERENCE AND ANY PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS MUST BE COMPLETED AT THE SAME TIME.
CEU FEES – No additional CEU fees for Friday and Saturday sessions will be charged this year. However, you must request CEUs on your registration form so that CEU coupons are generated with your registration materials. CEU fees for pre-conference workshops will be charged a $5 fee.
FULL – Includes Friday and Saturday sessions and workshops; Opening General Session; Admission to the Exhibit Hall; Friday All-Conference Awards Luncheon ticket; Saturday Breakfast in Exhibit Hall; Saturday Closing Event at the Hilton Chicago.
NO FRILLS – Includes Friday and Saturday sessions and workshops; Opening General Session; Admission to the Exhibit Hall.
FRIDAY ONLY – Includes Friday sessions and workshops; Opening General Session; Admission to the Exhibit Hall.
SATURDAY ONLY – Includes Saturday sessions and workshops; Admission to the Exhibit Hall.
STUDENTS/RETIREES – Includes Friday and Saturday sessions and workshops; Opening General Session; the Professional Connection; Admission to the Exhibit Hall; Student Luncheon on Friday.
GUEST/SPOUSE/FAMILY/FRIEND (Must not be affiliated with or employed by any park and recreation agency.) – Includes Friday and Saturday sessions and workshops; Opening General Session; Admission to the Exhibit Hall; Limited number of passes to various museums on a first-come, first-served basis.
PLEASE NOTE: · IAPD/IPRA will not invoice agencies or individuals for conference registrations. · Please complete a separate registration form for each individual registering. · Participants wishing to change workshops must pay the difference for a higher workshop or forfeit the difference for a lesser workshop. · Cancellations must be submitted in writing and received by December 11, 2009 in order to receive a refund less a processing fee of $25. No refunds will be granted for cancellations received after December 11, 2009. · Registrations will not be accepted after January 1, 2010; registrations not postmarked or faxed by January 1 will be returned. However, onsite registration begins at 7:30 am on January 28, 2010. · ADA Compliance: Please contact Dina at IPRA at 630-376-1911, no later than December 11, 2009, if you have any special accessibility/meal requirements.
QUESTIONS: · Email your question to [email protected] or call 847-759-4258. Be sure to reference the IAPD/IPRA Conference.
www.ILparksconference.com September/October 2009 45 2010 EXHIBITORS
COMPANY BOOTH# COMPANY BOOTH# 3D DesignStudio 1409 Floors Incorporated 908 A Zoo to You, Inc. 913 Fun Services 810 A-Awesome Amusements Co. 413 Gen Power Inc. 1207 ActiveCommunities, part of Active Network 1626 General ASP 202 Adolph Kiefer & Associates 1510, 1512 George Williams College 1508 All Inclusive Rec (A.I.R.) 1007 of Aurora University American Red Cross of Greater Chicago 604 Gold Medal Products 803, 805, 902, 904 American Locker Security Systems 403 Grins-Sportspage Inc. 903 American Ramp Company 206 Haldeman-Homme, Inc. 923 Ameristar Fence Products 1002 Halogen Supply Company, Inc. 1404, 1406 Aqua Pure Enterprises, Inc. 1514, 1516 Harris Computer/MSI/AEK 1509 Baggo, Inc. 707, 709, 711 Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates 816 Baum Sign, Inc. 1214 Henry Bros. Co. 1329 Beacon Athletics 1412 Hey and Associates, Inc. 419 Bella Bagno, Inc. 1019 Hitchcock Design Group 1315 BLDD Architects, Inc. 613 Homer Industries, LLC 1211, 1213 Blick Art Materials 517 Houseal Lavigne Associates, LLC 918 Bobcat Company 814 Howard L. White & Associates, Inc. 1402, 1403, 1502 Bonestroo 303 Human Kinetics - Starfish Aquatics 415, 417 Branch-Nicoloff Co. 1322 I.D. EDGE Inc. 1327 Bronze Memorial Company 818 Illinios Agriculture in the Classroom 1106 Brusseau Design Group, LLC 1612 Illinois Association of Park Districts 703 BSN Sports/Collegiate Pacific 811 Illinois At Play 1712 Burbach Aquatics, Inc. 1511 Illinois Bus Sales 1123, 1125, 1127 Carbit Paint Company 806 Illinois Chapter of the American Society 1210 CENTAMAN Systems 917, 919 of Landscape Architects Central Sod Farms 1008, 1010 Illinois Correctional Industries 1206 Challenger Sports - British Soccer Camps 602 Illinois Department of Central 420 Chapman and Cutler LLP 809 Management Services Chase Bank 101 Illinois Metropolitan Investment Fund 916 Chicago Bulls/White Sox 1309 Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund 1203 Training Academy Illinois Park and Recreation Association 802 Clowning Around Entertainment 1323 Illinois Park District Liquid Asset Fund Plus 705 Cody/Braun & Associates, Inc. 1408 (IPDLAF+)/ PFM Group Commeg Systems, Inc. (TimePro) 317 INNOVA Disc Golf 1714 Commercial Recreation Specialists, Inc. 823 Innovative Aquatic Design, LLC 1614 Communications Direct, Inc. 1212 IPARKS 1513, 1515 Cordogan Clark & Associates, Inc. 1607 Jazzercise, Inc. 807 Corporate Construction Services 1424 JJR, LLC 1319 COS Industries, Inc. 318 John Deere Company 1423, 1425, 1427, Counsilman-Hunsaker & Associates 1325 1429, 1522, 1524, Crown Trophy 316 1526, 1528 Custom Manufacturing, Inc. 1613 Keeper Goals 1608 CXT Inc. 1326 KI Furniture 817 Department of Commerce 423 Kiefer Specialty Flooring 1609, 1611 & Economic Opportunity Knutte and Associates, P.C. 502 Design Perspectives, Inc. 313 Kudrna & Associates, Ltd. 422 Direct Fitness Solutions 1306 Lake Country Corporation 1205 Doty & Sons Concrete Products 1422 Let’s Go Play/Playworld Systems, Inc. 405, 407 Drop Zone Portable Services, Inc. 1202, 1204 Lifeguard Store, The 921 EA Engineering, Science and Technology 819 Lights For Learning 715 Engineering Resource Associates, Inc. 617 Lincoln Equipment, Inc. 1421 Excalibur Technology Corp. 808 Lohmann Companies 421 Executive Service Corps of Chicago 603 Lord & Murphy, Inc. 1418 Farnsworth Group, Inc. 1317 Mad Bomber Fireworks Productions 1311 FGM Architects 1413 Maximum Solutions, Inc. 713 Fitness Connection, The 822 MB Financial Bank 514 Fitzgerald Lighting & 312 McGinty Bros., Inc. Lawn & Tree Care 314 Maintenance Co., Inc. Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament 1313
46 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.ILparksconference.com 2010 EXHIBITORS
COMPANY BOOTH# COMPANY BOOTH# Melrose Pyrotechnics, Inc. 1518, 1520 Sink Combs Dethlefs 315 Mesirow Financial, Inc. 412 Skender Construction 813 Midwest Sales Company 1622, 1624 SKYLOGIX 1621 Midwest Transit Equipment 1215 Soccer Made in America 302 Mity-Lite, Inc. 1021 Spargo Group, The 512 Moose Sports Surfaces, Ltd. 1321 Spear Corporation 1623 Mortenson Construction 615 Speer Financial, Inc. 1618 Musco Lighting, Inc. 1507 Sport Court Midwest 507 National Recreation Park Foundation 704 Sports Display, Inc. 1324 Nice Rink 1615 Sports Endeavors, Inc. 1308 NuToys Leisure Products 1303, 1305 Sports R Us, Inc. 905 Outdoor Movie Mania 1107 Sportsfields, Inc. 1619 Palatine Oil Company, Inc. 1004, 1006 SRBL Architects 1610 Palos Sports, Inc. 1307 Suncoast Aluminum Furniture Inc. 305, 307 Park District Risk Management Agency 1417, 1419 Sundek of Illinois, Inc. 1503, 1505 Park Supply Direct, Inc. 920 Tallgrass Restoration, LLC 912 ParkPro from Bockyn, LLC 1706, 1708 Tarkett Sports 304 Parkreation, Inc. 1525, 1527 TCL Electric & Lighting 1710 Parkway Imaging & Graphics, Inc. 723 Team REIL, Inc. 1405, 1407, Personalized Awards, Inc. 1517 1504, 1506, 402 PHN Architects 1314 Thompson Dyke & Associates, Ltd. 1302, 1304 Pizzo & Associates, Ltd. 1312 Tintype Studio, Inc. 112 Planning Resources, Inc. 1320 Tom Scholl Paving, Inc. 503 Platinum Poolcare Aquatech, Ltd. 1529, 1628 TSS Photography 821 PMA Financial Network, Inc. 915 Tyler Technologies 505 Prime Turf, Inc. 1012 U.S. Arbor Products, Inc. 513 Primera Engineers, Ltd. 215 U.S. Tennis Court Construction 1318 Professional Building Services 717 Company Professional Fitness Concepts, Inc. 416, 418 Upland Design, Ltd. 922 Profitable Food Facilities 1208 US Cellular 1122 PSA-Dewberry/BCA 1414, 1416 Vermont Systems, Inc. 1521, 1523 Public Restroom Company, The 914 Visual Image Photography, Inc. 1209 R.C. Systems, Inc. 907, 909 W.B. Olson, Inc. 906 Randolph Rose Collection 1016, 1018, Water Technology, Inc. 515 1020, 1022 Wenger Corporation 1014 Ratio Architects, Inc. 1023 Wild Goose Chase, Inc. 213 Record-A-Hit Entertainment 1415 Williams Architects, Ltd. 1328 Recreation Concepts, Inc. 1603, 1605, WRD Environmental, Inc. 212 1702, 1704 W-T Engineering, Inc. 1616 Recreonics, Inc. 1519 Zenon Company 1426, 1428 Reese Recreation Products, Inc. 1602, 1604, 1606 ZOPPÉ: An Italian Family Circus 610 Reinders, Inc. 1625, 1627, 1629 Renaissance Communication Systems 1411 RenoSys Corporation 623 Riddile & Associates 1410 Robert Juris & Associates Architects, Ltd. 815 RTH Processing, Inc. 506 Safe Sitters ® 214 SCORE, American Soccer Company 404, 406 SEC Group, Inc. 607 Seiler Instrument 820 Selden Fox, Ltd. 812 Shade Creations by Waterloo 910 Sidwell Company, The 414 Siemens 804 Sievert Electric Service & Sales Company 1310 Sikich LLP 306 Single Path 911
www.ILparksconference.com September/October 2009 47 48 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.ILparksconference.com
you too can be a published author Announcing the IP&R 2010 Editorial Calendar
by Rodd Whelpley, Illinois Parks & Recreation editor
The first and most important (and perhaps the only important) doing far more than writers who may glom facts from the Internet part about becoming an author is to be an authority. And, trust me, or, perhaps, those whose main purpose for writing is to nail down you are. If you have ever tried a new way to organize and run a a new sale or contract. park agency program or special event, if you’ve ever solved a thorny That’s why this year, just as every year, your association is issue by working with your fellow board members to re-envision a counting on you to share your hard-won expertise with the rest of long-held agency policy, if you’ve found ways to purchase supplies us in the pages of Illinois Parks & Recreation. So, don’t be shy. and materials that saved the agency money, if you have improved Send your stories. any facet of your agency’s operation, then you have the expertise to Those of you who wish to have your work considered for a be an author. specific issue will want to submit materials well in advance of Back in 1965, Roy Reiman had the crazy idea that he could that issue’s deadline (see page 51). Manuscripts for feature or build a successful magazine where the subscribers were also the focus stories should be 1,000 to 1,750 words (4 to 6 pages publication’s only authors. He started Country Woman and double-spaced) and may include a half- or one-page double- branched out to Country, Taste of Home, Reminisce, and nine spaced “sidebar” of ancillary information. In addition to a great others. Reiman’s approach has helped his publications weather the story, you’ll also want to supply high-quality color images and paralyzing storms that have sunk most magazine start-ups of the other artwork. past 30 years. Roy is often invited to industry conferences to share And don’t feel limited to sending in stories that are only the secret of his success. related to the announced theme of an issue. We consider stories “What secret?” I say. This magazine has long known that readers on any topic at any time, because who doesn’t like surprises? trust people like themselves who work in the field and learn by
50 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.ILipra.org Pillinois R PARKS AND RECREATION
2010 EDITORIAL CALENDAR
EDITORIAL DUE DATES ADVERTISING DUE DATES
Issue Focus Feature Length People & Places Ad Reservation Ad Materials Editorial Materials Due Section Materials Due Date Due (Stories at 300 words with Jpegs of 300 dpi) Jan/Feb Conference 10/1/09* 11/15/09* 11/15/09* 11/30/09*
March/April Golf 1/1/10 2/1/10 2/1/10 2/7/10
May/June Adapting to Changing 3/1/10 4/1/10 4/1/10 4/7/10 Environments - Economic and Otherwise
July/August Park Agencies as Keepers 5/1/10 6/1/10 6/1/10 6/7/10 of Cultural Heritage
Sept/Oct Legislative Issues 7/1/10 8/1/10 8/1/10 8/7/10
Nov/Dec Un Themed 9/1/10 10/1/10 10/1/10 10/7/10
Jan/Feb Conference 10/1/10* 11/15/10* 11/15/10* 11/30/10* 2011
* The conference issues are on an accelerated schedule. All editorial and advertising materials are due sooner than normal.
Be Wise – Advertise In Illinois Parks & Recreation Businesses that want to achieve the benefits of advertising in the magazine or the IAPD/IPRA Directory and Buyers’ Guide should contact the magazine’s advertising representative:
Beth Saltz Arlington Publishers Representatives
Phone: 847-509-9810 Fax: 847-509-9816 [email protected]
www.ILparks.org September/October 2008 51 Winnetka Hires New Director
Dr. Terry G. Schwartz is the new executive director at the Winnetka Park District. Schwartz comes to Winnetka with a background in the management of park and recreation organizations, facility management and education. Prior to accepting the Winnetka position, Schwartz served as the superintendent of citywide services for the City of San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. As superintendent, he was responsible for the following destination facilities operated by the city: Candlestick Park, home of the San Francisco 49ers; the Sharon Arts Studio; the Randall Museum; the Harvey Milk Performing Arts Center; Camp Mather, a 500 person campground in the High Sierra Mountains; the maintenance operations of five golf courses, including Harding Park, host of the 2009 President’s Cup; turf management of all athletic fields; Kezar Pavilion and Stadium (former home of the 49ers); Boxer Stadium; nine swimming pool facilities; all athletic programs; senior programs; adaptive recreation; and permits and reservations. Preceding his work in San Francisco, Schwartz was the director of PIVOT Recreation Resources, a sister company of Counsilman-Hunsaker, a St. Louis-based aquatics design and engineering firm. Schwartz also served as a full-time professor in the Recreation, Parks and Tourism Departments at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Western Illinois University and part time with San Francisco State University. He taught and studied in such areas such as research methods, entrepreneurial leisure, athletic facility management and the organization and administration of parks and recreation. Schwartz has enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner in Illinois as well. He served as director of the Glen Ellyn Park District and the South Barrington Park District, was the revenue facilities superintendent of the Arlington Heights Park District and was superintendent of recreation for the Champaign Park District. He started his career as the director of recreation for the City of Alton.
Glencoe Welcomes New Executive Director
Don Van Arsdale was recently appointed the new executive director for the Glencoe Park District. Van Arsdale comes to Glencoe after serving 19 years as the executive director of the Winnetka Community House, an organization that provides recreational opportunities, as well as cultural and educational services for five north shore communities. Before that, Van Arsdale held positions at the Lindenhurst, Northbrook, Palatine and Roselle Park Districts. He served as president of the Illinois Park and Recreation Association in 1999. A Graduate of Western Illinois University, Van Arsdale completed NRPA Revenue Sources Management School, the NRRA Executive Development Program and the IPRA Professional Development School. Park Board President Michael Brohman stated, “We’re thrilled to have Don, and we’re looking forward to a long relationship with him.” The Glencoe Park District used the IAPD Executive Search Program to help fill this position.
52 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.IPRAonline.com PEOPLE & PLACES
Fox Valley Adds Glenview Park District Tennis Club New Senior Park Receives the 2009 USTA Outstanding Planner Facility Award
Greg Stevens The Glenview Park District Tennis Club has been recently joined the Fox selected to receive the 2009 United States Tennis Valley Park District as Association (USTA) Outstanding Facility Award for the new senior park excellence in its programming, customer service and planner. Stevens brings facility amenities. The Glenview Tennis Club is one of just more than 20 years of three facilities in its class nationwide to be so recognized. landscape architecture The USTA recognizes facilities in order to encourage experience with expertise higher standards for the construction and renovation of in project management, public tennis facilities throughout the country. The award design and planning. is based on certain criteria, such as the overall layout, the Much of his previous excellence of court surfaces and lights, accommodations, work was with The aesthetics, amenities and the support of programs that Lannert Group, including promote tennis. such projects as park “We are proud of the Glenview Tennis Club and their and recreation design, staff for receiving this prestigious award,” said Chuck wetland mitigation Balling, executive director of the Glenview Park District. design, water feature design, commercial landscapes, “Tennis Club Manager Dave Woolf and his staff have built streetscapes and entry features, such as signage and branding. a first-class club with a broad base of programming to Stevens has a bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture and better serve our residents and to promote the game of a master’s in transportation and urban engineering from Purdue tennis throughout the North Shore.” University. A longtime member of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Stevens serves as president elect for the Illinois Chapter.
Glenview Park District Hires New Fitness Membership Coordinator and New Aquatics Supervisor
The Glenview Park District recently hired Rocco Garry as the new membership coordinator at its Park Center Health and Fitness facility. Garry is responsible for overseeing the membership process. He helps train front desk employees, assures all memberships are secured, oversees monthly billings and collections, audits transactions and analyzes membership retention reports. Garry has worked for the Glenview Park District since 2006 as the night and weekend supervisor at Park Center Health and Fitness. He stepped in as the interim assistant manager of membership and front desk operations in March 2009 and assisted with selling and processing memberships, monitoring and conducting interviews and conducting facility and equipment orientations. Garry is attending Oakton Community College and is studying business administration with an emphasis in accounting.
Jennifer Vernon is the district’s new aquatics supervisor of programming at the Glenview Park Center. Her responsibilities include supervising and operating Splash Landings, Flick Pool and Roosevelt Pool. She also oversees the Starfish Aquatics Swim School program, private lessons and bookings for Splash Landings. Before coming to the Glenview Park District, Vernon worked for six years at the Lombard Park District, where she managed the swim lesson program and the water park. She was then promoted to aquatics coordinator, responsible for certifying lifeguards, managing the swim instructors, assisting with the interview process for new employees and updating seasonal brochures. She also worked in the aquatics program at the YMCA in Elmhurst. Vernon graduated from Concordia University Chicago with a bachelor of arts degree in graphic design.
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Winnetka Hires New Recreation Supervisor
Ed Bjes recently joined the Winnetka Park District as recreation supervisor. He is responsible for youth basketball, lacrosse, youth softball, youth sports camp programs, adult softball and a variety of community- wide special events for the district. Bjes has spent the last four years at the Hoffman Estates Park District as the athletic manager. Bjes is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Ruth Miller and Dan Erwin at the groundbreaking of the Nicholas Conservatory and Gardens. B.A. in political science/public administration. He is a licensed official for six IHSA sports, including football, Rockford Park District Hosts baseball, basketball, wrestling, softball and lacrosse. Currently, he is an NCAA Conservatory Groundbreaking and wrestling official and a crew chief for high school football officiating. Announces Staff
The Rockford Park District celebrated the start of the Nicholas Conservatory and Gardens construction project with a groundbreaking ceremony held on August 4 at Sinnissippi Park. The $9.1 million project, which is being funded through private donations and grants, is expected to be completed in December 2010. In March 2009, the Rockford Park District Foundation announced that the Nicholas Conservatory and Gardens public campaign project had met its $9.1 million phase I goal, capping a five- year fundraising effort. Approximately 946 donors contributed to the campaign. Upon its completion, the Nicholas Conservatory will be the third largest in Illinois and will feature changing floral exhibits and a year-round exhibition of tropical trees, plants and flowers. The lobby area will be available to rent for private receptions, meetings, weddings and other catered events for groups up to 150. A private meeting room will also be used to hold educational seminars, not-for-profit organizations’ meetings and various group gatherings. Margo Dravis Stephanie Milnes “When completed, the Nicholas Conservatory and Gardens will be a showcase for the entire region. Additionally, from an economic impact standpoint, Sterling Promotes Rec Facility Manager, Hires New this project is employing approximately 100 full-time Aquatic Facility Manager workers over the next 18 months, which has an immediate benefit to our local community,” said Rockford Park District Board President Doug Brooks. Margo Dravis was recently promoted to the position of manager for the At the groundbreaking, the district announced Sterling Park District’s Westwood Sports and Expo Center. Her previous position several key staff appointments for the conservatory. was customer service manager. Dravis now oversees the operation of the sports Ruth Miller, program director of the City of Gardens, complex’s three separate buildings, which house 18 basketball and volleyball has been appointed conservatory facility manager courts; a 200-meter indoor track and field facility; four indoor and six outdoor and Dan Erwin, current manager of horticulture and tennis courts; four racquetball courts; batting cages; and an 8,000-square-foot parks for the district, will take on additional fitness center. Dravis has 11 years of experience with the district. horticulture management responsibilities for the new facility. Longtime park district deputy director of Stephanie Milnes is the district’s new aquatics facility manager. Her operations Ron Butler will oversee the entire responsibilities include overseeing all aquatic program and facility operations at operation of the new conservatory. the Duis Recreation Center. Milnes came to the district in May. She was previously employed as the aquatics director for the Sterling-Rock Falls YMCA and in the past has worked for the Collinsville Area Recreation District, as well as at the Prophetstown Park District. She is a graduate of Eastern Illinois University with a degree in recreation administration. Milnes is a certified American Red Cross and StarGuard Lifeguard Instructor.
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Tiffany McKown Shawn Snyder Ann Ziolkowski John Giannetti Frank Lamberti
New Employees at Northbrook District before taking jobs as communications manager for the Schaumburg and Chicago Park Districts. Tiffany McKown is the new office supervisor at the Northbrook Her most recent job was director of marketing and operations for the Park District Sports Center. San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers. A recent graduate of Western Illinois University, McKown received a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in recreation, park and John Giannetti first worked for the Northbrook Park District in 2000 tourism administration. Before coming to Northbrook, she was as a part-time summer employee. Having a mechanical background, he director of special events and marketing for the Macomb Area enjoyed the maintenance and repair work, obtained advanced training Convention and Visitors Bureau and worked as a hotel sales manager and accepted a full-time position in 2004. He left after a few years to in Peoria. At the Sports Center, she is in charge of registration, as well travel and train with the Air Force. Now he has returned as the district’s as hiring, training and supervising part-time staff. lead mechanic for golf maintenance at Sportsman’s Country Club. He is in charge of all the precision equipment that takes care of the 36 golf Shawn Snyder is the district’s new IT engineer. He brings eight holes. There are about 200 pieces of equipment, and he takes apart years of experience in programming, networking and security each one and completely rebuilds it in the winter. analysis, most recently working for the Naperville Park District. Snyder graduated from DeVry University in Addison in 2004 with a Frank Lamberti is the new supervisor of the Northbrook Park District bachelor’s degree in computer science and is pursuing a master’s Senior Center. Lamberti previously worked as the community resources degree in business at Keller Graduate School of Management in manager for the Sedgebrook Retirement Community in Lincolnshire. He Oakbrook. succeeds Jo Ann Nelson, who retired after guiding the Senior Center for more than 20 years. Lamberti is responsible for planning and Ann Ziolkowski is the district’s marketing director. She is a supervising programs and services for seniors, supervising part-time graduate of Western Michigan University who brings to the job 14 support staff and volunteers, assisting in the preparation of an annual years of experience in communications and marketing for four park budget and writing the center’s newsletter. He graduated from the systems. She spent about four years working for the Northbrook Park University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in leisure studies, specializing in sports and recreation management.
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Amie Chrisman Jackie Salemi Kevin Hosea Angie Kooima Sarah Ludwig
Staff Changes at Western DuPage SRA the past 18 years at local, national and international levels. His personal experience includes track, field, road racing, swimming, Amie Chrisman of the Western DuPage Special Recreation Agency basketball, tennis and, most recently, triathlons. He brings with him the (WDSRA) makes the move to athletics coordinator from Special unique perspective from both on and off the court and has experience in Olympics coordinator. She brings her expertise in Special Olympics to a wide variety of adapted sports. the growing Naperville Special Olympics programs and the new Special Hosea has experience working with social and recreational programs Olympics Young Athletes program. In addition, she is responsible for all for those with physical and cognitive disabilities. He holds a degree in of the physically challenged social clubs. kinesiology. Chrisman has a degree in parks and recreation administration with a therapeutic recreation emphasis. Angie Kooima is the new coordinator of day camps and special events. Most recently, Kooima was a member of the WDSRA inclusion Jackie Salemi joins WDSRA as Special Olympics coordinator. Her team. Her new responsibilities include coordinating day camps during responsibilities include organizing the Special Olympics programs the summer season and planning special events throughout the entire offered at WDSRA, as well as supervising and mentoring coaches, staff year. and volunteers. Additionally, Salemi acts as a liaison between Special Kooima brings with her a wide range of experience, including Olympics and WDSRA. teaching special education at the elementary level and working special Salemi spent the spring as a WDSRA intern, responsible for recreation programs while in high school and college. She received her coordinating a number of special events and coaching Special Olympics degree at Bradley University, majoring in elementary education and track and field, as well as working with the adaptive swim and several special education and minoring in psychology. inclusion programs. She received a degree in therapeutic recreation from Southern Illinois University. Sarah Ludwig is the association’s new administrative assistant. As part of the administrative staff, Ludwig splits her time between the Kevin Hosea joins the WDSRA team as an adapted sports association’s foundation and special projects. coordinator. He is responsible for organizing and growing the adapted Ludwig was formerly a part-time member of the association’s sports programs and coaching the Windy City Warriors wheelchair inclusion staff, working in programs and on a wide range of special basketball team. projects. Hosea, an athlete himself, has been competing in adapted sports for Ludwig attended the College of DuPage.
Gurnee Park District Lifeguards Set the Standard at Annual Skills Showcase Once a year, lifeguards from Illinois park and recreation agencies get an opportunity to showcase how skilled and responsive they are to emergency situations at the Lifeguard Games, facilitated by the Illinois Parks and Recreation Association and hosted this year on August 1 at the Lombard Park District. Gurnee Park District lifeguards took first and second place in the “Lifeguard Division,” beating out 39 teams. The district’s junior lifeguards (between the ages of 12 and 14) also took first and second place in their division. Events included relays consisting of compact jumping, swimming with dive bricks and cold weather gear at timed intervals, as well as rescue events including conscious and unconscious simulated guest rescues, spinal and CPR rescues, as well as light-hearted events, such as the purple plunge slide relay, the mascot dance off and the spirit award. The district’s winning lifeguard team included Jarrett Jespersen, Kara Moss, Jenni Salisbury and David Schweitzer. The second place lifeguard team included Christian Lara, Annie Mattingly, Ryland Marchioni and Mary Zalinger. Tim Beckmann, a pool manager at the Gurnee Park District, coached the teams this year. The winning junior lifeguard team consisted of Max Bongratz, Madeline Bitto, Lucas Sanz and Emma Castanos. The second place junior lifeguard team included Shannon McGurn, Gianna Driscoll, Ben Voigt and Ryan Constantino. Ronnie Grant, who is also a pool manager, instructed the Junior Lifeguards.
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Rockford Park District Course Named Best in Illinois
This summer, Golf Digest magazine ranked Rockford Park District’s Aldeen Golf Club and Practice Centre as the best municipal course in Illinois. Using a combination of star ratings from Golf Digest’s “Best Places to Play” and the publication’s “Best in State” rankings, Golf Digest selected Aldeen the best course owned by a municipal agency. Golf Digest also previously recognized Aldeen with a 41/2 star rating in its “Places to Play” guide. Another publication, Golf Magazine called it one of the “Thrifty Fifty,” among the This central fountain is a signature feature of York Center Park District’s new Knolls Community Park. top 50 courses in the country to play for under $50.
York Center Opens New Park
After years of planning and development, the York Center Park District, located in unincorporated Lombard, opened its newest park in July. The creation of Knolls Community Park Fox Valley Park District Acquires started in 2004, when the York Center Park District discovered that a site owned by a waste management company was for sale Nearly Five Acres of Shoreline in Lombard. It was purchased for $1.2 million with help from the Trust for Public Lands and a grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources in the amount of $602,500. A In June, the Fox Valley Park District Board of Trustees second grant followed from the Illinois Department of Natural approved the acquisition of 4.7 acres of Fox River Resources for $394,700 to assist with construction. The York shoreline and structures in Aurora, a move that will Center Park District received additional funding from the enhance and preserve riverside park space at two Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity with the different locations. help of State Representative Sandra Pihos in the amount of The district will use the property as the new center $20,000. Another grant for $83,500 was received from the for its administration, park and natural resource Access to Recreation Initiative funded by the W.K. Kellogg operations. Its current maintenance facilities are slated Foundation. The DuPage Community Foundation and its for demolition later this fall, after which the entire president David McGowan were instrumental in helping obtain riverside area will be restored to its natural state, extra funding. Another partnership, formed with Mark Trieglaff, opening up greater public access and recreational use of the president of Accessibility Consultation and Training Services, the Fox River and adjoining river trails. helped make the park accessible for all age groups. The purchase also clears the way to close a Fox River The vision for the new park was made possible with hard Trail gap in order to facilitate the connection of existing work from the Executive Director Sharon Neubauer, trails with safe trail passage through downtown Aurora, commissioners of the park district: President Margaret Crotty, thus making a 75-mile, uninterrupted river trail from Vice President Terry Purkart, Treasurer Ann DeGroot, Julie May Oswego to the Wisconsin border. and Daniel Summins. The architect on the project was Joseph Executive Director Steve Messerli said the redesigned Brusseau of the Brusseau Design Group. appearance of the 72,000-square-foot facility at the The Knolls Community Park Ground Breaking Ceremony was newly acquired property will feature natural and native held on July 24, 2008. The grand opening ceremony was elements that blend with the Fox River shoreline, exactly one year later on Friday, July 24, 2009. The new park comparable to a typical facility at a state or national connects an existing park, the township senior center and a park. grade school. Features of the Knolls Community Park include formal gardens, a fountain, interactive nature stations, an accessible fishing pier, fitness stations, a bocce ball court, a bags court, a council ring, a picnic pavilion, open green space and nature trails with year-round accessibility.
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Prospectus 2009 Sculpture in the Park Exhibit
1. Sculpture in the Park is co-sponsored by the Public Art Committee’s Sculpture in the Park Committee of the Downtown St. Charles Partnership and the St. Charles Park District. The Committee will display original outdoor sculptures within Mt. St. Mary Park along the picturesque Fox River in downtown St. Charles, Illinois.
2. Due to the size of the park (29 acres), life size and/or monumental sculptures are recommended. Larger life size pieces will be mounted on concrete slabs measuring 36” X 36” X 6”. The piece must be structured so that the concrete slab is capable of supporting it. Smaller pieces may be mounted on pedestals, 36” tall, with the mounting base measuring 14” X 14”.
3. All sculptures must be durable and suitable for outdoor placement. Pieces must be ready for outdoor installation with a minimum mounting system of no less than 3/8” bolts and no greater than 3/4” bolts. A minimum 3-point bolting system is required. A template board with exact bolt locations is required and must accompany sculptures. All pieces must be available for sale; the artist’s name, sculpture name and sale price will appear on a recognition plaque mounted on the base.
4. Acceptable media include: metal, stone or any other durable material that can withstand the elements and abuse of an outdoor display. Pieces should not have sharp edges or be an endangerment to the public. The committee reserves the right to inspect all pieces and order the removal of a sculpture if the committee feels it presents a danger; the committee’s decision is final.
5. The Park District will provide insurance during the period of the exhibit, once the piece is installed, for any damages incurred (see #6 below) up to a maximum of $10,000 as determined by the insurer. Insurance coverage before installation and immediately after removal of the sculpture from the mounting base(s) is the responsibility of the sculptor or owner.
6. If any damage is done to a piece, the amount covered is the cost of repairing the sculpture or, in the event the piece is not repairable, the cost of replication of the piece by the sculptor, up to $10,000 maximum, as opposed to the retail value of the piece. In the interest of public safety, the DSCP and the Park District retain the right to remove damaged or dangerous pieces in the absence of prompt and satisfactory repair.
7. The committee will approve all sculptures to be displayed. Submissions may not have been previously displayed in St. Charles Sculpture in the Park exhibits. The committee’s decision is final.
8. Sculptors will deliver their pieces with template board between 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. (Rain date: Thursday, April 23, 2009). Sculptures will be installed by St. Charles Park District staff. Sculptors must check in with staff. Vehicles will not be allowed to drive on any grass areas. Coffee and donuts will be served.
9. Sculptures will remain on display through Tuesday, October 13, 2009. Sculptures will be removed from their bases at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 14, 2009. Insurance will terminate at that time. Sculptors are responsible for delivering their sculpture and the removal of their sculpture during the time specified above.
10. Each accepted artist will be paid a $500 honorarium. An artist who has been approved to exhibit two pieces (the maximum per artist) will be paid an honorarium of $750, which covers both pieces. A purchase award is proposed for the placement of one or more sculptures each year in Mt. St. Mary Park.
11. The Committee will collect a 20% commission on sculptures sold or commissioned during the period of the exhibit.
12. The Committee will be responsible for working with local and regional media to promote the Sculpture in the Park exhibit.
13. Sculptors will certify to the DSCP and the Park District that they have created and possess unencumbered title to the sculpture(s) they are submitting to the Sculpture in the Park exhibit.
14. Each application must include a brief biography of the sculptor. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
15. Sculptors will allow the DSCP and the Park District to publish photos and information related to their sculpture(s).
16. The DSCP and the Park District will not be liable for degradation caused by weather and normal wear and tear.
A completed application form including digital or print photographs of three views of proposed sculpture(s) must be received by January 31, 2009 (absolute deadline). For insurance purposes, the insurer requests three recent sales prices. Mail to:
Candy Boulay 2009 Sculpture in the Park Exhibit St. Charles Park District 101 S. Second Street St. Charles, IL 60174
If you have questions, please feel free to contact Candy Boulay at (630) 584-1055 or by e-mail at cboulay@st- charlesparks.org.
2009 Sculpture in the Park Exhibit Application Form
Name ______
Address ______
City ______State ______Zip ______
E-mail ______Website______
Work Phone ______Home Phone ______Cell Phone ______
Name of Sculpture ______
Dimensions: Height ______Width ______Length ______
Medium ______Weight ______
Due to the size of the park (29 acres), life size and/or monumental sculptures are recommended. Larger life size pieces will be mounted on concrete slabs measuring 36” X 36” X 6”. The piece must be structured so that the concrete slab is capable of supporting it. Smaller pieces may be mounted on pedestals, 36” tall, with the mounting base measuring 14” X 14”.
All sculptures must be durable and suitable for outdoor placement. Pieces must be ready for outdoor installation with a minimum mounting system of no less than 3/8” bolts and no greater than 3/4“ bolts. A minimum 3 point bolting system is required. A template board with exact bolt locations is required and must accompany sculpture. All pieces must be available for sale; the artist’s name, sculpture name and sale price will appear on a recognition plaque mounted on the base.
Acceptable media include: Metal, stone or any other durable material that can withstand the elements and abuse of an outdoor display. Pieces should not have sharp edges or be an endangerment to the public.
Have other pieces from this edition been purchased? Yes ______No _____
If so, where are they located? ______
Price for sale: ______Price for insurance purposes: ______
The following requested information will be used for marketing purposes. If you need more space than provided, please use the back of this sheet or attach documentation to this application.
Please write a short description of your sculpture(s) and your inspiration to create it.
Please include a short biography about yourself including other installations and awards.
I acknowledge receipt of Prospectus and agree to abide by all terms.
Signature of artist or owner Date
Please return this form including digital or print photographs of three views of proposed sculpture(s) to:
Candy Boulay Submission must be received by 2009 Sculpture in the Park Exhibit Note: Incomplete applications January 31, 2009 (absolute deadline). St. Charles Park District will not be considered. 101 S. Second Street St. Charles, IL 60174